How to Use devastate in a Sentence

devastate

verb

• The flood devastated the town.
• The disease has devastated the area's oak tree population.
• The hurricane left the island completely devastated.
• Coal plants can be the largest employer in a region, and plant closures can devastate the towns and counties that host them.
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2022
• As wildfires devastate the land around vineyards, how is the smoke affecting the wine industry?
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 3 Aug. 2022
• The spotted lantern fly — an insect that can devastate large swaths of fruit crops — has arrived in Loudoun County this summer.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• Many species grow on one or two mountaintops—nowhere else—and reproduce so slowly that poachers can devastate an entire species in a single visit.
  — Brian Howey, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2022
• Sooner or later, government debt will devastate the economy.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
• That warming effect is like a performance enhancer for cyclones, giving them optimized fuel to strengthen and then devastate whatever lies in their paths.
  — Emily Barone, Time, 30 Sep. 2022
• The island itself was devastated, left void of vegetation, and split in half, NOAA said.
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
• The detailed chronology could improve forecasts of melting ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, which could devastate coastal regions around the world.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 Oct. 2022
• Hashem was devastated to the point of backing out of the deal.
  — Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• The part of the island which includes the historic town Lahaina was devastated by the fires.
  — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
• The Coquette’s jealousy leads the Baron, the host of the ball, to stab the Poet; the Sleepwalker, devastated, carries him away.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The fact of the matter is Lindsay is devastated and I'm crushed with how all this transpired.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
• This week marks three months of war that continues to devastate Gaza as the bodies and rubble pile up in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre.
  — TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
• Frankenstein the novel is about many things, including the life of the mind and how the human heart divides and devastates us.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• And deluges and floods devastated areas around the world.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
• He was devastated but didn’t know what else to do other than accept they were lost and move on.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• On May 13, we were devastated to hear that the royal family of the Netherlands had sailed to Britain.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• So, when Garcia received the news from the vet in June that Nala had cancer, she was devastated.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
• This leaves the band’s fans devastated, including a young boy named Sea (played by Chang).
  — Sara Merican, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2024
• The 29-year-old was just one of the scores of foreigners who became caught up in the attack that has devastated families around the world.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• Gazans welcomed the prospect of a lull in the fighting that has devastated much of their territory.
  — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Both cousins were devastated over their younger cousin’s loss.
  — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
• The return of an active rail route through this desert landscape would devastate the unique and in many places sacred character of the area.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
• Taylor was devastated when Todd died a year later in a plane crash.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2024
• Prior to Suzume’s release in Japan last year, Shinkai held a screening of the film in Tōhoku, the region devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
  — Kayti Burt, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2023
• When Chelsea chose Jimmy in the end, Trevor seemed genuinely devastated, and that endeared him to fans even more.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2024
• View full post on Instagram Fans had a lot to comment on, with many saying they too were devastated about the trade.
  — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 30 June 2023

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024