Example Sentences

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A spokesman for Israel’s National Fire and Rescue Authority said some 460 fires so far have ravished mostly open areas, but have also damaged nature reserves.

From Reuters • Aug. 27, 2020

"These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished," reads Owen's poem Mental Cases.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2015

Injuries have ravished Sizemore's once-thriving career, and it's not yet known if the Indians will pick up his $9 million option for 2012.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2011

Said Il Duce, once a hod-carrier: "Madame, your poems have ravished my eyes, and, as I read them aloud, my ears and my whole being fell likewise under their spell."

From Time Magazine Archive

The gold that you have ravished will soon lie on the bottom of the sea, inaccessible to you.

From Invisible Links by Lagerlöf, Selma