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Example sentences for: ravaged

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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).
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.
Why then, does the press paint Dole as a New Age '90s guy who is finally making the big hug with the inner child who was ravaged by the Wound?
Couldn't Soutine's eruptive, vertiginous landscapes be construed as recollections of a ravaged Europe, or even as the foreshadowing of an apocalyptic, post-atomic future?
The black death that ravaged Europe in the 14 th century seems to have started in Asia and followed trade routes west.