Example sentences for: ravaged

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

  • Of the 34 Doric columns only 15 are still in situ, and the ornate frieze on the pediment and entablature has been ravaged by the salty air, but the whole effect of the building combined with the setting — with beach on one side and sheer drop on the other — is magnificent.

  • 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.

  • A rare survivor in a land constantly ravaged by so many invasions, it is claimed to be the oldest in Hungary.

  • The WP mostly does the flip side, describing the return of Albanians to their ravaged homes.

  • The Byzantine Empire had powerful and well-fortified cities, but the countryside and the outlying islands were ravaged by waves of invaders.


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