Example sentences for: devastating

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

  • Though Spencer's famous mural sequence at the Sandham War Chapel near Cookham, bristling with resurrected soldiers, is often considered his masterpiece, Travoys is more moving in its simple and devastating design.

  • In October 1997, the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection described the potentially devastating implications of poor information security from a broader perspective in its report entitled Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructures.

  • [ 17 18 19 ] Equally important, unrelieved pain can have a devastating psychological effect on the individual and family [ 20 ] . As there is no reason to delay the use of analgesics, [ 16 ] initiate analgesic interventions while completing investigations and providing therapies directed against the cause of the pain (eg, radiation for a neoplasm).

  • Devastating as this revelation is, it is unlikely to appreciably affect DiCaprio's ability to lure more barmaids up for a five-minute fumble.

  • The 23-year-old Australian ex-soap-opera star is crowned the next Spice Girl, "a pop juggernaut in the making" (Tracey Pepper, the New York Observer ). Critics say Imbruglia combines feminist power-pop à la Alanis Morissette and devastating beauty.


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