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Example sentences for: ravaged

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Fires ravaged Kyoto’s original 8th-century Imperial Palace, and the present buildings are a 19th-century reconstruction.
The Journal notes a crucial difference between Japan and Asia's other economically ravaged countries: Japan has no foreign debt and hence is free from foreign dictates.
To the common man, wars were just another hardship, taking sons away from the farm to fight, while the armies — French as much as foreign — ravaged the land or pillaged the towns.
If a forest fire ravaged the trees leaving them twigless and limbless, the above-mentioned Willoughby Young would call them dead staddles.
Badly planned, poorly made, and apt to burst into flames--no, not prime-time TV (although I, for one, would be more likely to watch Ally McBeal if the law firm were more frequently devastated by fatal explosions, or the nightly news if furious grease fires now and then ravaged Peter Jennings' hair).