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Example sentences for: devastated

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Crops were wiped out; the rice terraces were devastated, and starvation threatened.
People are devastated if I tell them three, but I lost two.
Ash, mud, and floods from the 1963 eruption of Gunung Agung devastated this part of the island, and the effects are still felt today, as its agriculture has not yet fully recovered from the disaster.
Other islands were also devastated.
The LAT reports that many Turks are leaving the earthquake zone because of a lack of shelter, fear of disease, and doubts that the devastated cities will be rebuilt.