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.
• There is no mechanical way to help the overgrown turf that wouldn’t devastate your lawn.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2021
• Environmentalists had feared the oil might devastate birds and marine life in the area.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• The push to not invest in new gas supply is already starting to devastate as demand can only continue to rise.
  — Jude Clemente, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
• Surging debt yields and plunging stocks would devastate business and household confidence.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• Their rental house, in South Lake Tahoe, backed up to the forest that had been devastated by the wildfire in 2021.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
• And a coordinated assault on our power grids, food supply or health care ecosystems could devastate our economy and society.
  — Dan Mondor, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• The singer also found time to wax philosophical between songs, marveling at the fact that the extinction of a small number of insect species would devastate all of nature’s ecosystems.
  — Bryan Rolli, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
• Collier’s death was the third of four murders in just two months to devastate a group of close friends and family in the capital city’s Upper Albany neighborhood.
  — Zach Murdock, courant.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• Hashem was devastated to the point of backing out of the deal.
  — Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• In the treeless Aleutians, rats can devastate birds that nest on the ground.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2021
• The part of the island which includes the historic town Lahaina was devastated by the fires.
  — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Jackson said she is still devastated over the loss of her youngest son.
  — Kelly Davis, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
• 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
• So, when Garcia received the news from the vet in June that Nala had cancer, she was devastated.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
• Coal plants can be the largest employer in a region, and plant closures can devastate the towns and counties that host them.
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2022
• More than a decade later, fans of the wildly popular group were devastated to learn of the death of Liam Payne last week at age 31.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2024
• This leaves the band’s fans devastated, including a young boy named Sea (played by Chang).
  — Sara Merican, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Both cousins were devastated over their younger cousin’s loss.
  — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
• Mandel believes tariffs would devastate the American economy, adding to the inflationary problems people have faced in recent years.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024