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How To Use lay waste to In A Sentence

• But when central authority broke down, marauding bands lay waste to the land and turned it back into pasturage.
• The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion.
• The monthly gabfests organized by our local Skeptics Club often see rational-minded card-carrying members lay waste to the lame claims of mystics, seers and other snake oil salesmen.
• Goliath is a horrific giant cyclops; the drowning sinners trying to claw their way onto Noah's Ark are caught in flashbulb moments of terror and agony; Saul's army rends the raw meat of their slaughter as they try to avoid starvation; the mutilated corpses of Baanah and Rechab dangle from nooses in Hebron; the boiled heads of donkeys emerge from the cooking pot as starving Israelites look on with hungry eyes; Daniel's horned beast crushes a mountain of screaming men and women as it stalks the land; and in Revelations, the rains of fire, floods and famine lay waste to cities as horribly burned famine victims scream and claw at their flesh. Boing Boing
• Poorly drafted legislation purports to squelch the threat of invasive species, but does little more than create massive bureaucratic headaches, ignore primary invasive threats (plants, feral domestic animals) for sensationalized "exotics," and lay waste to the herpetoculture, aquaria, and aviculture trades without rational justification. Say No to H.R. 669
• My dictionary gives the meaning of "depredate" as "to plunder or lay waste to", something Vikings would do, but not snails. This just in: authors prey on careless copy editor!
• When the ork hordes of Warlord Snagrod lay waste to the planet of Badlanding and wipe out the Crimson Fists sent to stop them, Chapter Master Kantor prepare a hasty line of defence on the Fists homr planet of Rynn's World. Books in the Mail (W/E 01/16/2010)
• Knowing that the body count was going to be considerably lower this time round I grabbed a ticket and prepared to watch Zebraman lay waste to criminal scum.
• Poorly drafted legislation purports to squelch the threat of invasive species, but does little more than create massive bureaucratic headaches, ignore primary invasive threats (plants, feral domestic animals) for sensationalized "exotics," and lay waste to the herpetoculture, aquaria, and aviculture trades without rational justification. Say No to H.R. 669
• The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion