Example sentences for: devastated

How can you use “devastated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On the dismissal of her case by Judge Susan Webber Wright, Jones said, "I was just devastated.

  • First reported last fall, the epidemic has devastated the entire collection.

  • People are devastated if I tell them three, but I lost two.

  • The WP lead highlights the role the US played in convincing Ecuador to reinstate its elected government: the US strong-armed the opposition by threatening to cut foreign aid and discourage investment in the economically devastated country.

  • The 1960s American ban on Cuban cigars so devastated Fidel Castro that American policy-makers didn't hesitate, a decade later, to punish the flag-burning ayatollahs with a similar ban on Iranian caviar.


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