ravage

Landing on a pebble beach, the Normans fortify Hastings, ravage the countryside, and feast on stolen meat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Temperatures are rising and normally rainy Salzburg now worries about water shortage and the environmental ravage of over-tourism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

The Citrini selloff latched onto the market’s recent paranoia that artificial intelligence could ravage established players in a range of industries.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

“Christian forgiveness does not demand we allow the cruel to ravage the whole earth; it demands we love our enemies,” he said.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025

If Percy attacked the giant, the hydra would ravage the city.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

"I have lived through the ravages of war," she wrote on social media.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

The corps was far more numerous than the populations of the villages on its route; its ravages cleaned out food stores that local peoples counted on for survival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

McLaughlin hopes the designations will allow the trust to make its nature reserves "more resilient to the ravages of climate change" by restoring habitats and creating wildlife corridors beyond the boundaries of the reserves.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

They experience the same ravages of time, and they’re subject to the same echo chambers that the modern digital experience demands.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

And on Mondays eight servants including an extra gardener toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This ravaged warscape hadn’t much changed when I returned a year later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

By then, fire had ravaged the community; the report suggests that incident commanders were unaware of the devastation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Flooding—which ravaged coastal towns and my basement over the weekend—is also more frequent, in part because warmer water helps strengthen storms.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

The war has displaced millions of people, ravaged Ukraine's economy, put Russia's military under massive strain and has led to the expanded use of drone warfare.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Hope and relief showed on his ravaged face.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

The 19th-century statesmen gathered at Vienna to stabilize Europe in the aftermath of Napoleon’s ravaging.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

The United Nations Security Council voted on Tuesday to extend by six months the work of the gang suppression force deployed to combat violent criminal syndicates ravaging Haiti.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

The ravaging of the museum reflects the destruction seen across Khartoum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Tens of thousands of emigrants from Ireland, desperate to escape the famine ravaging their home country, landed in 1847 at the Grosse Île quarantine station in what is now the Canadian province of Quebec.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

He had business to attend to, and besides, he did not believe the illness ravaging his city was a contagious plague.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy