Example Sentences

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Refreshingly, it began the opinion with facts about how climate change is ravaging Montana and threatens everybody’s way of life.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2024

And while malnutrition is ravaging the country's youngest, aid which had prevented healthcare from collapsing has had to be withdrawn.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2023

A coronavirus outbreak is ravaging a hospital in Shanghai for older adults, underscoring the difficulties officials have had in containing infections even as the city imposed a 10-day staggered lockdown.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022

Romania has the second lowest vaccination rate in the 27-nation European Union and one of the highest COVID-19 mortality rates in the world, with doctors warning that the pandemic is ravaging a generation of grandparents.

From Reuters • Nov. 5, 2021

A green Locustid, with a short sabre bent into a reaping-hook, Phaneroptera falcata, is ravaging the corollae of my petunias.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander