ravages 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of ravage

ravages

2 of 2

noun

plural of ravage

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ravages
Noun
However, as a geostorm ravages Earth, Athena and Hen’s space mission teeters on the edge. Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025 As extreme heat ravages New York City this summer, the lives of thousands detained on Rikers Island hang in the balance. Darren MacK, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ravages
Verb
  • Each participant had lost central vision in one eye due to dry AMD, which destroys light-sensitive macular cells over time.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • An arson fire destroys the 43-year-old Globe Theatre on March 8 (the arsonist was never caught, but a firebug had set several blazes in the park that winter).
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Will there be future fairy tales about birds whose feathers glow in the dark nesting in the ruins of primitive power plants of past ages?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Teenagers can only take so many historical facts or visits to ancient ruins and notable churches.
    Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Americans are used to thinking about automation as something that devastates factory towns in the heartland.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The novel is about three teenagers experiencing the joy and angst of their senior year in a New York City high school as the AIDS crisis devastates their community.
    Abdi Nazemian, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The idea that Watkins was an enabler of Gein’s murders and subsequent desecrations could be read merely as a part of the show’s aggressive and admitted mingling of fiction and reality.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025

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