Example Sentences

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Moreover, the disease has ravished police and firefighting departments nationwide, and scores of EMTs are also grappling with high numbers of diagnoses among the ranks.

From Fox News • Mar. 25, 2020

The government has come under particular scrutiny recently, as floods have killed dozens of people and a locust plague has ravished crops and grazing land.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2020

The funding request in his 2017 budget proposal would address the harrowing epidemic, which has ravished communities in all corners of the U.S.

From Time • Feb. 2, 2016

Soho Rep, New York An American in Paris Directed by the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and packed full of some of Gershwin’s finest songs, this all-singing, all-hoofing extravaganza has ravished Broadway.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2015

I dare not snatch one of your kisses;     The sweetness of your charms has ravished my soul.

From Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady