12 sentences with 'devastated'

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• « The wrath of the hurricane devastated the coast. »

• « The boy was devastated when he saw that his precious toy was completely broken. »

• « After the earthquake, the city was devastated and thousands of people were left homeless. »

• « -You'll get better soon," I assured her, but inside I was devastated. »

• « Italy was devastated; it was the Byzantine invasion, not the earlier "fall of Rome", that crippled the Italian economy until the late Middle Ages. »

• « The Mongol horde often devastated the lands it conquered. Some, like the Central Asian kingdom of Khwarizm, were so devastated that the areas it encompassed never fully recovered. »

• « Unfortunately for the Turkish dynasties of the time and for millions of ordinary people throughout the Middle East, the Mongol invasions of the 13th century devastated much of the region. »

• « In 726, a volcano devastated the island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea. Leo III took this as proof that the veneration of icons had gone too far, as some of his religious advisors had told him. »

• « Between 1503 and 1533, one by one, the cities became territories or puppets of one or other of the great powers, and in the process the Italian countryside was devastated and the cities' financial resources depleted. »

• « The plague devastated the affected areas, none more so than in Europe. This devastation was largely due to the vulnerability of the European population to the disease, thanks to both poor harvests and a lack of medical know-how. »

• « In contrast, Louis XIV financially devastated the French government with his wars, despite the efforts of his intendants and other royal officials to squeeze every drop of tax revenue they could from the huge and prosperous kingdom. »

• « However, the Mongols are entirely relevant to the history of Western civilisation, both because they devastated the kingdoms of the Middle East at the time and because they eventually laid the foundations for the history of early Russia. »

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