How to Use devastate in a Sentence

devastate

verb

• The flood devastated the town.
• The disease has devastated the area's oak tree population.
• The hurricane left the island completely devastated.
• Hashem was devastated to the point of backing out of the deal.
  — Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• The part of the island which includes the historic town Lahaina was devastated by the fires.
  — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
• The Coquette’s jealousy leads the Baron, the host of the ball, to stab the Poet; the Sleepwalker, devastated, carries him away.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The fact of the matter is Lindsay is devastated and I'm crushed with how all this transpired.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
• This week marks three months of war that continues to devastate Gaza as the bodies and rubble pile up in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre.
  — TIME, 11 Jan. 2024
• Frankenstein the novel is about many things, including the life of the mind and how the human heart divides and devastates us.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• And deluges and floods devastated areas around the world.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
• He was devastated but didn’t know what else to do other than accept they were lost and move on.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• On May 13, we were devastated to hear that the royal family of the Netherlands had sailed to Britain.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• The 29-year-old was just one of the scores of foreigners who became caught up in the attack that has devastated families around the world.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• Gazans welcomed the prospect of a lull in the fighting that has devastated much of their territory.
  — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• When Chelsea chose Jimmy in the end, Trevor seemed genuinely devastated, and that endeared him to fans even more.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2024
• View full post on Instagram Fans had a lot to comment on, with many saying they too were devastated about the trade.
  — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 30 June 2023
• Volunteer brigades will help prep for disasters in the area devastated by the Woolsey fire.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• When the app shut down earlier this month, users were devastated.
  — Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• Swift wrote in an Instagram story that she was devastated by the death.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• Al-Sharif, 34, spoke by voice message from a shelter in Derna, the city in eastern Libya that was devastated by last week’s floods.
  — Ziad Jaber, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• She was devastated when Chang informed her that Ginsburg is no longer alive.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
• An elephant puts two years into one baby and guards it with its life and is devastated if the poachers come knocking.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024
• Shelter staff were devastated on behalf of the person who had no choice but to surrender her beloved cats.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
• Climate change has devastated the land: the Earth is covered in smog; crops have withered; countries are caving to famine.
  — Katherine Hu, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2023
• Zhou had spent days watching the mother cat feed her kittens, and was devastated to see the doting mother snatched by a snow leopard.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 15 June 2023
• Bravo said the girl’s death devastated her younger brother.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
• Bryson’s friends are devastated by his loss, Colbert said.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 30 Oct. 2023
• Three weeks after the fire devastated Maui's historic seaside community of Lahaina, the count of the dead stands at 115.
  — CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Kevin McCarthy and his team were devastated by his ousting.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
• After waiting weeks, he was devastated to learn he wasn’t cast.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024