Example Sentences

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Coming from a dog family myself, I know these years are devastating.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

"These are devastating injuries that most women don't ever recover from," Earp says.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2026

He warned that the long-term health consequences of the pollution are "devastating".

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Advocates and workers argue that these operations are devastating to communities that were already struggling with economic pressures from the pandemic, automation, and environmental factors like recent fires.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

He hems in six hundred Franks who are devastating the second Germania, and starves them into surrender.—III.

From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Yonge, Charles Duke