How to Use devastated in a Sentence

devastated

adjective

• A week after the storm, the smell of death overpowers the cool mountain air over the isolated, twisting roads of devastated rural western North Carolina.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024
• And frankly, like so many of you, my wife and I are shocked, devastated and grieving.
  — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 27 June 2024
• Some help is getting through the one road that leads to the devastated areas.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Now those scenes were giving way to scenes of a devastated Gaza.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Many of the Fallout video games revolve around the vaults and the devastated societies that were rebuilt in the outskirts.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• So, Lily is not quite dead, Finn is not quite devastated, and this is not quite serious.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• But when Rhaenyra says no, he’s left devastated, adrift…and angry.
  — Sean T. Collins, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2022
• The group entered a devastated area north of Gaza City via the border fence that Hamas terrorists burst through on Oct. 7.
  — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
• If the symbol of Mandalore still lives, what does that mean for their devastated planet?
  — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• With devastated fields and less produce to pick, many found themselves out of work this season.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
• Paris Hilton was seen vacationing on the beaches of Maui, Hawaii, just 30 miles away from the devastated town of Lahaina.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
• The devastated town of Lahaina is a trove of history — 10:38 a.m.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• Afterwards, the devastated 39-year-old man opened his 43-minute review of the movie by setting Barbie and Ken dolls on fire.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• Massive flooding from the destruction of the dam on June 6 devastated towns along the lower Dnieper River in the Kherson region, a front line in the war.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
• A lot of people are very devastated [by] what’s happened with inflation and all the other things.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2024
• With the death toll at 111, the search for the missing moved beyond the devastated town of Lahaina to other communities that were destroyed.
  — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
• As teams have combed through just 25% of the devastated area, the death toll is expected to climb significantly.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Stevie Nicks, who owns a house nearby to the devastated town of Lahaina, shared a heartfelt statement following the fire.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
• We're left with the image of the devastated eldest boy staring sightlessly into the horizon of New York Harbor with the haunted look of a man who might jump.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 30 May 2023
• Set in the future in a devastated version of the United States, Aloy sets out to find out what really happened to the world, which is being ravaged by machines.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 31 Mar. 2023
• Kramatorsk lies just 20 miles from the front lines and the devastated city of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region — near enough to be a frequent target of Russian missiles and a way station for troops.
  — Dzvinka Pinchuk Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• Following the boy’s death, his devastated father took his own life.
  — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 28 June 2024
• After this month’s earthquakes, many of its eateries switched to simpler fare to feed thousands of people across the devastated region.
  — Daniella Cheslow, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2023
• By the fourth day, the networks were helping a devastated nation mourn with the first presidential funeral on live TV.
  — Stephen Battaglio, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2023
• As the opening credits sequence ran for the last time, the devastated Mayans reflected on the temporality of life.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
• The answer could restore devastated reefs across the globe affected by climate change.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2023
• Contributions will aid the short-term and long-term projects needed to rebuild the homes and help the devastated local communities.
  — Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2023
• Within hours of the leaders' tense call, the Israeli government announced new measures to increase aid to the devastated coastal enclave.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• Listen to this article The younger of two teen sisters who drowned off Coney Island over the weekend only meant to dip her feet in the water at the time of the tragedy, according to her devastated mother.
  — Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
• President Joe Biden will visit the devastated state Wednesday to survey the damage.
  — Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024