Example Sentences

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People farm corn — the one crop left unravaged by blight — watch baseball games in half-empty stands, and flee towering haboob dust storms announced by air raid sirens.

From The Verge • Oct. 27, 2014

They are entranced by a vision of China in its entirety, handed back to them intact, its industries unravaged by wars of liberation, its sovereignty total and absolute.

From Time Magazine Archive

And since we may come into districts as yet unravaged where we may find growing corn, we ought to take handmills for grinding: these are the lightest machines for the purpose.

From Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus by Dakyns, Henry Graham

And to keep even a garden unravaged was now become a subject of the deepest concern.

From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin

Through all the centuries and over all those southern waters nameless men have fought in nameless places, their sole monuments a protected coast and an unravaged country-side.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir