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Example sentences for: devastate

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species cause thousands of millions of dollars of damage to the world's commercial crops every year: they blight potatoes and tomatoes, devastate the lucrative soybean, and rot cacao, threatening the world's supply of chocolate (Figure 1).
It must devastate Clinton--a president obsessed with his legacy--that his place in history is now secure: He's the reckless lech who ruined his presidency for a 22-year-old intern.
Already strained to the breaking point, this cut will devastate the civil equal justice delivery system in our state.
In impoverished areas, this can devastate a family's chances of economic survival.
The cover story contends that eliminating affirmative action does not devastate equal opportunity in higher education.