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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).
The cover story contends that eliminating affirmative action does not devastate equal opportunity in higher education.
Already strained to the breaking point, this cut will devastate the civil equal justice delivery system in our state.
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.
In impoverished areas, this can devastate a family's chances of economic survival.