devastating

How To Use devastating In A Sentence

• Where destruction pure and simple is desired, the shell is charged with a high explosive such as picric acid or T.N.T., the colloquial abbreviation for the devastating agent scientifically known as "Trinitrotoluene," the base of which, in common with all the high explosives used by the different powers and variously known as lyddite, melinite, cheddite, and so forth, is picric acid. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
• Although, reading about his devastating sex appeal might have also helped.
• Lawrence survived a devastating accident at work with months of painful recovery in the hospital and at home.
• His distraught wife Lesley had to break the devastating news to the children that their dad would not be coming home.
• Annan says robust monitoring by international observers will be key to resolving the devastating conflict.
• To lose him so young, so suddenly and in such a savage way is a devastating shock to our family.
• The introduction of these foreign organisms can have a devastating impact on marine environments.
• The emotionally devastating effects of non-accidental injury, especially to children, has been receiving dramatic mass media coverage recently.
• He is a friend of the West, and that is what makes his criticisms, when they come, so much more devastating.
• All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama