Example sentences for: devastating

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

  • [ 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).

  • The commission's October 1997 report, Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructures, described the potentially devastating implications of poor information security from a national perspective.

  • What made Bradley's response on this point especially devastating was his accompanying hand gesture, undoubtedly unconscious but perilously close to the universal symbol for "pull it a little harder."

  • But by the end of the century cotton had fallen victim to a devastating plague of chenille bugs and exhaustion of the weak soil.

  • 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.


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