scene of destruction
Example Sentences
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Sawsan Choucair whose mother, sister, nieces and brother-in-law died in Grenfell said she was confronted by "the same scene of destruction, the same image, even the same smell of burning plastic."
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024
The 35 students fanned out across an area once known as “downtown” Sequoia Crest, where the original homes were built and now a sad scene of destruction with stumps poking from the snow like tombstones.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2021
When Chris Tavelli went to check on his Pause Wine Bar, in San Francisco, in early April, he walked into a scene of destruction.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020
It’s a scene of destruction here this morning.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2018
When the blizzard subsided, a scene of destruction stretched from one ice-white horizon to the other.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
