9 sentences with 'devastating'
Example sentences and phrases with the word devastating and other words derived from it.
• « But nowhere did his personality have such devastating and tragic effects as in his relationship with his own son. »
• « The most devastating was the famous "Black Death". It came in two forms: bubonic plague and pneumonic plague. »
• « The results were devastating: some scholarly estimates indicate that the population of Greece declined by as much as 90% in the centuries following the Bronze Age collapse. »
• « Whatever disease or combination of diseases the Black Death actually was, the effects were devastating. »
• « The Black Death ended in 1351, but the plague returned approximately every twenty years in some form. Some cases were as devastating, at least in limited areas, as the Black Death had been. »
• « The war had a devastating effect on France. Between the fighting and the plague, its population was halved. »
• « The Ottoman Empire originated from several small Turkic kingdoms left in the wake of the devastating Mongol invasions of the 13th century. »
• « The Mongol invasions had been devastating, Mongol rule cruel and extractive, and the Timurid period that followed was no better, leading collectively to a marked decline in the prosperity of Persia as a whole. »
• « The most devastating religious conflict in European history occurred in the middle of the Holy Roman Empire. It raged for decades and saw the population of the German lands reduced by 20-40%. »