Example Sentences

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The last 16 months have eviscerated California’s restaurant industry.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2021

Bar owners downtown have pushed back against public health orders, arguing that such restrictions have eviscerated their businesses.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2020

This house had been deeply buried in ashes by an ancient eruption, so violent as to have eviscerated the volcano of that time, which subsequently collapsed.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward