How to Use ravage in a Sentence

ravage

1 of 2 noun

• It's been to the beach and withstood the ravages of sand.
  — Florence Kane, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2017
• And there will be a future, however great the ravages of the virus.
  — Daniel K. Gardner, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2020
• Nothing can fully protect you from the ravages of a flood, of course.
  — Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 19 May 2017
• Luck is not the first player, or even the first star, to retire early because of the NFL's ravages.
  — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• This movie imagines an African nation not damaged by the ravages of the slave trade.
  — Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• Now the archdiocese is seeking help to save Notre Dame from yielding to the ravages of time.
  — Vivienne Walt / Paris, Time, 27 July 2017
• The area in west Houston paid tribute to the survivors and those who are fighting the ravages of breast cancer.
  — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 23 Oct. 2017
• All Jim Tonelli has to do to see the ravages of emerald ash borer is walk out his back door.
  — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2018
• School nurse Heather Hays watched fentanyl’s ravages on the nightly news and grew worried.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• In one, set in 1985, a gallery director witnesses the ravages of AIDS all around him.
  — Time Staff, Time, 22 May 2018
• It’s festive and messy, an image, perhaps, of a certain kind of recovery from the ravages of the past.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
• My father-in-law suffers from Alzheimer’s and we’ve seen firsthand the ravages this illness can cause.
  — Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• By 2005, news of meth’s ravages were on display in the national media.
  — Joshua Sharpe, ajc, 4 July 2018
• At the same time, the continent has become a dramatic stage for the ravages of climate change.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 15 Jan. 2020
• Young activists, who will be forced to live with the ravages of climate change, find this upsetting.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• Fiberglass is made to stand up to the ravages of summer sun and salt water, so a little snow should be a problem, right?
  — Popmech Editors, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2019
• But the ravages of climate change have hit the animals, which depend on sea ice to survive, hard.
  — Palko Karasz, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
• The ravages of the opioid epidemic may be having an effect as well.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 8 May 2018
• In 1944 researchers recognized that millions of people were at risk of famine as a result of the ravages of World War II.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 18 July 2019
• The ravages of the Dust Bowl were controlled within a few years, but the effects of climate change would be much more difficult to reverse.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 July 2017
• As my bookseller friend knew, its ravages often leave the remaining copies of a work all the more valuable.
  — Kevin Young, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• Today those same buildings, rescued from the ravages of war and time, are in active daily use.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2017
• Apparently, Lenny Kravitz is immune to the ravages of time.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2018
• The play is set in a New York still reeling from the ravages of 9/11, which family members barely escaped.
  — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Progress in medicine has destroyed that era’s worst health ravages, and changes keep coming, extending life spans.
  — Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2018
• Pest controllers Wallace and Gromit must save the day when a vegetable-munching beast ravages town gardens.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• These stylized works of art show the ravages of baking summers and bitter winters.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• The rock ’n’ roll ravages have done their thing, but those fabulous cheekbones — and that stare — remain intact.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2019
• But the ravages of time lend him a dash of character-actor underdog appeal to go with the star power.
  — Noah Berlatsky, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
• The ravages of Harvey and losing that crop also affected last year’s non-event—no fruit.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2019

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ravage

2 of 2 verb

• Hurricane Andrew ravaged Louisiana and Florida in 1992, causing $19 billion in damage.
• In fact, two-thirds of the men had come aboard ravaged with scurvy.
  — Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
• This war, that has ravaged so much of the earth, has written these words.
  — Charles Oppenheimer, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
• But in the places the storm ravaged, the extent of the destruction had not yet come into clear view.
  — Derrick Bryson Taylor, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Afghanistan has long been one of Asia’s poorest countries and has been ravaged by conflict for decades.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 9 Oct. 2023
• After being ravaged by injuries over the past few months, the Vikings looked like a group with nothing left to give as the game clock hit 0:00 for the last time.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024
• The historic city of Antakya was one of the places most ravaged by an earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• The number hasn’t been that low since the pandemic began ravaging the state more than three years ago.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
• The crack cocaine epidemic ravaged Chicago in the 1980s.
  — Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
• Opal Lee, the grandmother of Juneteenth, was able to see her home raised again on the lot were her childhood home was ravaged and burned.
  — Candi Bolden, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2024
• She’s ravaged with guilt, but also wants to be free of everything.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2023
• Like the tech and music industries, media has been ravaged by layoffs over the past 15 months.
  — Elias Leight, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2024
• New York’s offensive line has been ravaged by injury, and the team ranks last in the NFL in third-down and red-zone conversion rate.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• The Quiet Place series takes place in a world in which blind, monster-like aliens hunt down anything that makes a sound, ravaging the Earth.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
• Soot charred one side of the building as flames also ravaged two vehicles..
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2024
• But the seeds for both were sown during the decade before, when AIDS ravaged through the theater community.
  — Marissa Charles, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
• This week, wildfires in Maui have ravaged the island, killing at least 80 people.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
• And, of course, bottom-trawlers can ravage thousand-year-old meadows in a matter of minutes.
  — Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
• There are fears that rebuilding from the wildfires that ravaged Maui over the summer will lead to even more displacement.
  — Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2023
• Oil-rich Libya has been ravaged by conflict since the fall of its longtime dictator, Moammar Gaddafi, in 2011.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• As other workers fled, Perkins lost consciousness and was trapped inside the plant for about forty minutes while the gas ravaged her eyes, throat, and lungs.
  — Casey Tolan, CNN, 4 May 2023
• Here’s a guide on how to keep cool and stay safe in the punishing temperatures as the latest heat wave ravaging the country spreads east.
  — Rio Yamat, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2023
• The fires that have ravaged the Texas Panhandles are proving to be costly, not just financially for the state, but for the livelihoods of many.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2024
• The climate has been destroyed, the cities are ravaged, and the human race is experimenting with colonies in space that the residents of earth could move to.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2023
• This exacerbates droughts and sets the stage for wildfires like those that have ravaged Canada this summer.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2023
• Migrants will play crucial roles in the retrofitting of host nations to cope with the climate volatility that has ravaged their own–helping to future-proof their economies in the process.
  — Parag Khanna, Fortune Europe, 1 Dec. 2023
• Most of those people are from South Sudan, a nation that split from Sudan in 2011 and has been ravaged by civil war ever since.
  — Lynsey Chutel, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• This vegetation provided fuel for the wildfires that ravaged the state in the summer and fall of 2019.
  — Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Soon, these two will spend long nights ravaging each other, dumping corpses, dodging bullets, and running for their lives.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024
• Soot charred one side of the structure as flames also ravaged two vehicles, according to photos and videos shared by Wilbourn.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024