Example Sentences

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The firestorms that have been ravaging Los Angeles and Southern California since Tuesday afternoon are nothing short of calamitous.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2025

For days now, fires possibly caused by human activity and worsened by high temperatures and dry vegetation have been ravaging across Pantanal without generating much outcry.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2019

The weather could also help control some of the other fires that have been ravaging parts of the state.

From Reuters • Apr. 23, 2011

They occur in that discourse in which He describes Himself first as the Good Shepherd, and contrasts Himself with the thieves and robbers who have been ravaging the flock.

From The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little by Kleiser, Grenville