How To Use Ravage In A Sentence
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What can be said of the kingdom of Thrace, set up by the Gauls who had ravaged Macedonia, or of the kingdoms of Pontus, of Bythnia, of Pergamum and of Syria, founded by adventurers after the battle of Ipsus in 301 B.C.?
Élie Ducommun - Nobel Lecture
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Dire positions often brought the best out of him, before injury ravaged the closing years of his Test career.
Times, Sunday Times
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During the wars of the reign of Louis XIV. the margraviate was ravaged by the French troops, and the margrave of Baden-Baden, Louis William (d. 1707), was prominent among the soldiers who resisted the aggressions of France.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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Around the same time, an invasive worm called the teredo ravaged the docks and pilings along the waterfront, and periodic fires wiped out most of the buildings.
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Ravages of age: Glacier National Park turns 100, but melting glaciers portend big changes resources | Recommend
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As it sways precariously beneath the five-tonner, a small priesthood of caretakers will guide it to a washbasin and gently remove the ravages of worship and travel.
Roy and His Rock
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The countryside of Pisa had been ravaged by aerial bombardments and artillery barrages, leaving only a wilderness of roofless houses and smoking craters.
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In 1390 a great plague ravaged the country.
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Be 19 with peachy, firm skin unblemished by the ravages of time.
The Sun
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Be 19 with peachy, firm skin unblemished by the ravages of time.
The Sun
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The band often finds a radio-ravaged fan after a show who expresses surprise and delight in the retro sound.
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The real villains he fingers as the Newfoundlanders, who waded into the auks' domains and ravaged them without mercy.
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The nurse informed me he had been carted off to start a course of factitious fever therapy, the only treatment then available to allay the late ravages of the spirochaete.
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Large hoardings that line arterial roads are suddenly brought down, either due to human intervention or the ravages of the weather, and the concrete jungle takes on a fresh, new look that is easier on the eye.
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My native village was ravaged seriously in the war.
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But still my wishful dreams persist, and in them the dead streets are resurrected in a bustling afterlife, the ravaged downtown neighborhoods dense with foot traffic and a lively mercantile carnival.
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The keepership was semireligious, being connected so deeply with the Ravager.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM
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The ceaselessness of the _Volpe_'s pitch and plunge wore at him: unable to find even an hour's respite to recover his energies, Matteo could keep nothing down, found it impossible to maintain his balance, and felt the ship's unnatural motions -- irreconcilable with any human cycle -- begin to ravage him.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Ravaged, raddled, redolent of hard-won experience, his voice sounds like something dreamed up by the Department of Health in order to scare people off smoking.
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I pushed my famished, ravaged body onwards.
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It confirmed Foreign Secretary Russell's fears that ‘acts of plunder, of incendiarism, and of revenge’ would ravage the American continent.
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Be 19 with peachy, firm skin unblemished by the ravages of time.
The Sun
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Lanegan's personal narrative, the euphoric highs and ravaged lows of the junkie, the fretful pining of the love incompetent and the poetic musings of the maverick outsider, are poignantly realised.
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A collapse in global oil prices and a consequent slump in local production have ravaged the Alaskan economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vampyre umbral skulker until sunlight dwindles then bat becomes nocturnal prince throat ravager, claret quaffer, night wraith fearless charlatan, blood drunkard but at dawn's flushing kiss he yields to light
Archive 2006-08-01
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Nothing actually stopped this Viking invasion until 892, when pestilence so ravaged the army that they finally dispersed.
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He had never been so aggressively, powerfully, penetratively gazed on, cruised, sexualized, ravaged by a woman.
Feminist blogs
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As the tide of the war turned, the German people increasingly suffered the ravages of war.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Despite the ravages of illness and many demands on his time he once again replied and recalled our meeting all those years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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For years afterward, the index languished below the century mark as the economy slowed and inflation ravaged consumers' buying power.
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Thus thought Maria — These are the ravages over which humanity must ever mournfully ponder, with a degree of anguish not excited by crumbling marble, or cankering brass, unfaithful to the trust of monumental fame.
Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
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What they did was to start Women for Women International, a nonprofit group focused on empowering women whose countries were ravaged by war.
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They will reduce our country to the status of the ravaged countries they have fled.
The Sun
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Much of the worst devastation on the Six Rivers corresponds to areas previously ravaged by a ferocious 1995 wind storm.
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Night had fallen sullenly over the storm ravaged waters of the Gulf of Mexico, with heavy drops of rain spitting down from the wet, grey, overcast sky.
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She said she was stunned to receive an email, purporting to be from Cook, which mocked her use of the phrase "ravaged with it" to describe her condition.
Evening Standard - Home
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A battle-ravaged legion could have only two maniples, a hastily reorganised one could have ten.
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It was ravaged now, exposed, like the pale splintered wood of the tree.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Vice, including the deviancy of art, was the prerogative of the elderly, wily north, and in White's novels it ravages a southern society that is only virtuous because it lacks imagination.
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These two had been constant companions for two weeks, still newly-weds, recently ripped apart by the ravages of war.
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A ship had thrown its anchor down near desolate shores, constantly ravaged and pummeled by persistent waves.
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Weary, famished and despairing at the end of 1846, the peasants of one of the most famine-ravaged counties in the country hoped for better things in the coming year.
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In 1918 the world had been ravaged by the First World War.
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To protect against the ravages of time.
Take Care of Your Skin
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Before she died, she had done much to restore her beloved garden from the ravages of war.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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There are also anti-Taliban fighters from the Hazara ethnic minority who control parts of the exquisite, ravaged Bamiyan valley.
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Á frente, inúmeros carros parados, uma constelção improvisada de luzes de travagem, piscas e luzes de presença.
Oito da manhã na auto-estrada
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She looked ravaged, an Antigone, with perhaps a pinch of Medea underneath.
INSIDERS
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The commercial centers on a tornado ripping through the storm-ravaged area, debris littering the blacktop as a traffic light sways in the gale.
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The arguments are moral: the rich countries owe a debt for the ravaged resources of the Third World.
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The tables had a ravaged look - platters almost empty and puddled with brownish juices, serving spoons staining the linens, parsley sprigs limp and bedraggled.
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Mr Bush is expected to visit the ravaged Gulf Coast region, perhaps on Saturday.
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The government on Thursday gave foreign militants until the end of the month to leave Congo, warning that a joint U. N.-government military offensive would drive any remaining fighters from the war-ravaged Central African nation.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Even those which did stay for any length of time had to survive batterings, groundings and the ravages of the Great Storm of 1869, which pulled ships from their moorings and pitched the Humber into chaos.
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Even with the cooler weather and some rain, acrid smoke still hangs over the most ravaged areas.
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Its taste was foul, but it was cheap, and just a beakerful or two sufficed to ravage the drinker's brain to zombiedom.
Hooting Yard
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He was a tallish, slightly ravaged young man, thinner, more ribby than the sleek soldiers who toyed with the kids.
Son of a Witch
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In his art Francis Bacon found beauty in unspeakable horror; his paintings of ravaged, bloodied bodies exposed our mortality.
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Mr Handley, like so many of his fellow farmers up and down the land, must have been suffering agonies of worry as the weeks grind on and foot and mouth continues to ravage the land.
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The Marooners who escaped carried their wanton ravages to other parts of the world.
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England must fancy their chances of clinching the series as India are ravaged by injury and lousy form.
The Sun
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AVON, Colorado - Stubborn, sky-high flames ravaged nearly one-quarter of the pool building at Beaver Creek West Condominiums early Wednesday morning in Avon, Colorado.
The Vail Trail - All Sections
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For three years, their homeland, already ravaged by a decade-long civil war, has suffered a catastrophic drought.
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Neighbouring houses weren't in danger, according to the Fire Service, but it did take a long time to quench the flames, which had ravaged through the whole house.
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Ivory Coast President-elect Alassane Ouattara cordoned off the Abidjan residence of his rival Laurent Gbagbo on Friday as his government moved to restore water service in the war-ravaged city of Abidjan and prepare for the resumption of cocoa exports, the African country's main foreign-currency earner.
Ivorian Opposition Strives for Normalcy
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The area has been ravaged by drought/floods/war.
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Eventually, though, nature's sudden ravages are repaired, a little bit at a time.
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After the night of drunken crime and pie-eyed vandalism that ravaged the country on St Patrick's day, plans are afoot to move the date of the festival for next year's celebration.
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The same can not withstand the ravages of time, emotion, to the time it will cool.
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Then all the ravages of time appear.
Times, Sunday Times
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In New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, free-market cheerleaders called the ravaged city a “green field” for experimenting with privatized public education.
Archive 2008-04-01
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They “browbeat and discouraged” the militia and presented “an example of all manner of debauchery, vice, and idleness when they lie skulking in forts,” while the country was “ravaged in their very neighborhood.”
George Washington’s First War
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Certainly, the construction industry will be pressing the minister to see whether Scotland's ravaged road system will receive any spending.
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On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and other federal officials toured Galveston, Houston and other areas of Texas ravaged by Hurricane Ike when it made landfall Saturday.
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While more than 60,000 homeless from hundreds of flood-ravaged villages spent a miserable Christmas in jam-packed schools and gymnasiums, search teams retrieved an additional 150 bodies from the sea as far as 60 miles 100 kilometers from worst-hit Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities, said Benito Ramos, head of the Office of Civil Defense.
Philippines Floods 2011: Bodies Found Far Away From Ravaged Villages, Coastline
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This project combines fire rehabilitation with watershed and ecosystem restoration on sites where loblolly pine has been ravaged by bugs and blight.
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As the tide of the war turned, the German people increasingly suffered the ravages of war.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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On the other hand, if that same leper is in Molokai, the surgeon will operate upon the foot, remove the ulcer, cleanse the bone, and put a complete stop to that particular ravage of the disease.
Chapter 7
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The cells formed new blood vessels where heart disease had ravaged the original ones.
The Sun
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Not even the quest for scientific knowledge is immune from the ravages of extremists in the environmental movement.
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Desperately-needed wheat crops in central Zimbabwe are being ravaged by a plague of quelea birds, national radio reported
ANC Daily News Briefing
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What it also does is remind me of how special and precious those few are who don't disappoint, who don't surrender to the odds, the ravages of time, or self-indulgence.
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Quarterback John Elway, 36, continues to defy the ravages of time.
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Lord knows that as quickly as they themselves are being ravaged by enemy fire, Bush is raiding their VA funding, so they need all the dentifrice help they can get.
Dentists Send Halloween Candy to G.I.s: Trick or Treat?
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First Minister Jack McConnell yesterday urged people in drug ravaged areas to shop drug dealers.
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During the following months I watched Rebekah struggle with the ravages of chemotherapy.
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Images of John Paul II have shown him gaunt, pained and ravaged by Parkinson's disease and arthritis.
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Oeniadae, his ships sailing up the river Achelous, while his army ravaged the country by land.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The operation known as Rurik's Hammer, the lightning military conquest of all of Scandinavia, had been designed to solidify popular support for the resurrected Soviet government at home despite the rationing, the purges, and the KGB crackdowns; to cow a fragmented and weakened NATO already over-extended in the war-ravaged Balkans; and to remind continental Europe of the might of Soviet arms.
Countdown
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In short, at a tolerably large wine-party there was wasted, or _worse than wasted_, a quantity of Port wine sufficient to check the ravages of a typhus fever in an entire village.
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew
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I will make a condition with Edmund that the Etheling's odal shall not be included in the land which is peace-holy, and that to ravage it shall not be looked upon as breaking the truce.
The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest
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We see, on the contrary, that after his victory, and to punish the Sarmatia is for the ravages they had committed, he withheld the sums which it had been the custom to bestow.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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They seem to have been badly ravaged by micrometeorites and are somewhat high in radiation, so I doubt that a trip would be worth while.
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What was a graceful and vibrant part of the city has become tired and tawdry as the ravages of time and inattention over the last 15 years have taken their toll.
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The resulting feud ravaged the Australian side of the 1930s and 1940s until Bradman finally purged O'Reilly's cabal.
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A pregnant woman told today of the devastating moment she returned home to find her York flat ravaged by fire.
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Frelis Lorimer had had little enough time to repair the ravages of tears.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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But tens of thousands of other claimants came from countries that are not ravaged by war.
The Sun
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As cholera continues to ravage parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America -- reportedly reaching Puerto Rico and Hong Kong this week -- public health researchers are looking to the skies in hopes of anticipating future outbreaks.
Satellite Images May Help Predict The Next Cholera Outbreak
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Paintings too are vulnerable to the ravages of time.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Civilizations that have remained relatively untouched by the ravages of war have invariably produced the finest cuisine in the world.
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The monks repaired their ravaged shrines — the feuar again roofed his small fortalice which the enemy had ruined — the poor labourer rebuilt his cottage — an easy task, where a few sods, stones, and some pieces of wood from the next copse, furnished all the materials necessary.
The Monastery
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Desecrated by bombings and ravaged by war, Dubrovnik has been lovingly restored and is once again one of the most charming and delightful cities in Europe
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Cancer-ravaged Alex Higgins - dubbed snooker's 'People's Champion' - was found dead and alone in bed at his humble flat yesterday.
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She finally began to recover from the ravages of the war.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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Pieria they did not penetrate, but were content to ravage the territory of Mygdonia, Grestonia, and Anthemus.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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It's even less fair to airbrush a 60-year-old celebrity and present her as someone who's managed to avoid the ravages of time.
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While Sitka spruce can withstand the ravages inflicted by deer, other species are not so hardy.
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Darkness unleashed, it ravaged the land, destroying everything in its path.
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Hours before the worst of Hurricane Rita ravages the Texas and Louisiana coasts, water overwhelms or overtops a newly patched levee.
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Civil war has ravaged the region since independence in 2011 and left 1.2 million homeless.
The Sun
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The tables had a ravaged look - platters almost empty and puddled with brownish juices, serving spoons staining the linens, parsley sprigs limp and bedraggled.
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Conflicting ambitions and personal bickering meanwhile kept princely and noble warlords divided, while their willingness to let the Spaniards ravage frontier provinces sapped any wider support they might have hoped for.
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Her fate and sad history have made a woman of her, and now she is bent on repairing the ravages of time.
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Mark while I build from out this terrene dust, a structure that shall witness and withstand Time's ravages and rust.
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After the British evacuated, patriots returned to ruined properties and a city ravaged by fires.
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This carbon loophole has allowed pollution giants like Exxon Mobil, Koch Industries, Peabody Coal, and Massey Energy to ravage the planet, sicken our children, and rake in obscene profits for decades.
Wonk Room » Byron Dorgan Tells His Flood-Ravaged State That A Repowered America Is ‘Not Going To Happen’
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In those days, Europe was periodically ravaged by plagues.
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This slow - moving mammal cannot move quickly enough to escape the deadly fires perennially ravage the land.
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In recent decades his waning strength proved no match for the ravages of well intentioned but overbearing regulations.
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As neither a cause nor a cure could be found for its fatal ravages, the senate ordered the Sibylline Books to be consulted.
The History of Rome, Vol. I
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He lived in Glasgow, a city ravaged by the effects of that particular drug.
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Towns and sities ravaged from the the Civil War to our Revolution to Pearl Harbor.
Rebuilding New Orleans? « BuzzMachine
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But tens of thousands of other claimants came from countries that are not ravaged by war.
The Sun
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The would-be rescuer who has become a target of wrath over Wall Street excesses and the ravages of the recession, knows all too well what is driving public anger.
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Rebecca Cook/Reuters DETROIT RAVAGED: A firefighter walked through the backyards of homes burned in a blaze sparked by downed power lines in Detroit Tuesday.
Photos of the Day: Sept. 9
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Councillor Colin Tandy spoke about various river sites which have been completely ravaged by vandals.
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England must fancy their chances of clinching the series as India are ravaged by injury and lousy form.
The Sun
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One part of me agrees, yes that in a completely hopeless case, ravaged by pain, this might be the merciful thing to do.
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Without women men revert to animals, without men women could heal and restore to harmony a world raped and ravaged.
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Few expected the ravages of war, and none expected the deprivation of imprisonment.
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The hardships of life inside mobile homes, which are being slowly ravaged by the salty sea air, seem to energise rather than depress the residents.
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Almost miraculously, these structures were spared the ravages of the 1906 earthquake.
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In rural Statesboro, Georgia during the early 1900s William James started schools for rural Blacks during a time of ravage racial discrimination.
Roderick Carey: Parents Aren't to Blame for the Achievement Gap: A History of Injustice Is!
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The casings are also designed to resist the ravages of sunlight and temperature changes.
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Whether it be lumbago, angina or merely the merciless ravages of time that are getting you down, the answer to your problem may well lie at the bottom of the garden.
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His body had been ravaged by the drugs.
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My impression that Upper Egypt is actually a rather violent place, which has been growing the further south we go, is confirmed by her account of the feuds which ravage small communities like hers.
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For two centuries, at least, the disease has been known to exist endemically, that is, more or less continuously, in most of the Mexican Gulf ports, extending its ravages along the West India Islands and the cities of the Central and the South American coast.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915
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Suddenly, Jack's trees (four in total) are ravaged by aphids.
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The face that stared back at her was ravaged, bewildered, numb.
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The disease ravaged his frail body, leaving him unable to speak or control bodily functions in his final days.
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I survived, through no personal virtue, but because I did not have the chemistry of a dipsomaniac and because I possessed an organism unusually resistant to the ravages of John Barleycorn.
Chapter 38
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Categorized as "educable," John does not have Down syndrome but more resembles Lennie from "Of Mice and Men" - a giant of a guy with a sweet nature, a thick shock of white hair, beautiful skin that never endured the ravages of alcohol and cigarettes, a low I.Q. and epilepsy.
NYT > Home Page
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Second, this particle size "knits" together effectively over the summer season, making it a more stable medium for withstanding the ravages of winter weather.
Realty Times Real Estate News Channel
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‘It was like a huge group of grasshoppers surrounding a paddy field, ready to ravage the grains,’ the report said.
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Doubtless photography is making the same ravages on this side of the Channel as it is with us.
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We watch as her brilliant mind is betrayed by a body ravaged by disease and aggressive treatment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The small craft shivers within a pyrotechnic display of ravaged primary particles.
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His noble face is blackened with soot and ash, his powerful body stooped with exhaustion, his expression ravaged with grief, for those still burning embers hold within their embrace the bodies of his friends and comrades, perhaps the body of his lady wife.
Through Wolfs Eyes
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The pair have been helping people on an island off North Sumatra, the closest inhabited area to the epicentre of the earthquake, which was ravaged by the deadly waves.
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Benedict was near thirty, and yet his face and form had withstood the ravages of time and circumstance.
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Or will the ravages of time be the biggest winner now?
Times, Sunday Times
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Blight is a terribly cruel fungal attack which leaves the potato haulms in shreds just as though a herd of locusts had ravaged the whole crop and, yes, it can literally happen that fast.
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The ravages of the Napoleonic Wars hit the merchant guilds particularly hard.
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The diphtheria epidemic that ravaged the region between 1735 and 1737 had overleaped them.
‘War on the Run’
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The aspect of the places subject to the ravages of typhus seems often to exclude all idea of a local or endemical origin.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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A circular shape always either emerges from or sinks into a ravaged surface.
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She had made a modest name for herself in the infectious diarrheas, studying enteric organisms that ravaged the gut.
A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
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She had made a modest name for herself in the infectious diarrheas, studying enteric organisms that ravaged the gut.
A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
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But they never pretended to hold the region thus ravaged; it was sack, burn, plunder, and away; and these desolating inroads were retaliated in kind by the Moorish cavaliers, whose greatest delight was a "tala," or predatory incursion, into the Christian territories beyond the mountains.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
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Too often it does not confine its ravages to the external parts, but it attacks the vital parts; when it affects the lungs it is called consumption, and I wish this to be particularly understood, that _consumption is neither more nor less than scrofula of the lungs_.
Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil, Scurvy, and Cancer With Cases Illustrative of a Peculiar Mode of Treatment
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Rather than having been budded onto a rootstock, shrublets grow on their own roots, making these plants less susceptible to the ravages of winter.
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Hinduism has survived the ravages of thousands of years in spite of its own inherent weaknesses.
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As Hannibal's army ravaged the Italian countryside and besieged allied cities and towns, the Roman army followed it at a safe distance.
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Then a "firedrake," guarding an immense hoard of treasure (as in most of the old dragon stories), begins to ravage the land.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
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Cash treats the song (which I'm only vaguely familiar with in its NINcarnation as a moaning anti-drug plaint about waste) as a kind of dirgelike meditation on the last, dying embers of life; the video shows archival footage of the Man In Black contrasted with the Dying King of today, surrounded by the wrack of the flood-ravaged (although the video brilliantly implies tragic, Ozymandian neglect) Cash Museum in Nashville.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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Every few minutes I think of Cuba about to be ravaged by Hurrican Ivan.
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There's a highly successful advertising executive, once handsome and athletic, now eaten away and ravaged.
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The softness in his voice at the mention of her name ravaged Anne.
Rekindled
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Sewage, effluents from dyeing and electroplating units, indiscriminate sand mining and encroachments have all ravaged the river.
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Feeling desired helps deal with the ravages of time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dire positions often brought the best out of him, before injury ravaged the closing years of his Test career.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, watching a deflated Van Damme shuffling around in the snow, his mullet lank and unwashed, his face ravaged by time is a genuinely unpleasant experience.
The Hard Sell: Coors Light
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Although the quarter was ravaged by fire in 1941, many of the spacious town houses were restored and turned into beachfront hotels.
Times, Sunday Times
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A collapse in global oil prices and a consequent slump in local production have ravaged the Alaskan economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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This destruction is, perhaps, the least reparable of the ecological ravages which distinguish our age.
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For two centuries, at least, the disease has been known to exist endemically, that is, more or less continuously, in most of the Mexican Gulf ports, extending its ravages along the West
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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In those days, Europe was periodically ravaged by plagues.
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None of them were present at the famous cannonade, but their main forces were certainly caught up in the rain-soaked and disease-ravaged retreat which followed.
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S.NTIAGO, Chile — U.S. S.cretary of S.ate Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in earthquake-ravaged Chile on Tuesday to offer the devastated country moral and material support as it recovers from the deadly disaster.
Hillary Clinton Arrives in Chile
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Endocarditis, an inflammation of the heart lining, had ravaged him.
Times, Sunday Times
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I could not ride any distance in the conventional mode, and was just going to give up this splendid "ravage," when the man said, "Ride your own fashion; here, at
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Rabies so ravaged the population that there were very few raccoons left.
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It's an accomplished portrayal of ravaged glamour, pitiable but also biliously unlikeable.
Times, Sunday Times
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She has just begun chemotherapy and her immune system is so ravaged that the most innocuous virus could kill her.
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A ferocious predator, Ichthyosaur can ravage even the most hardy prey in seconds.
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The eroded head of a figure on a tombstone suggests the vanity of attempts to stem the ravages of time.
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Today at the supermarket I noticed a woman whose skin looked ravaged by the sun.
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On the other hand, if that same leper is in Molokai, the surgeon will operate upon the foot, remove the ulcer, cleanse the bone, and put a complete stop to that particular ravage of the disease.
Chapter 7
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His constitutional cheerfulness had been slipping away from him for some time now, thanks to the ravages of the germ of dissatisfaction; but on this occasion he was absolutely dumpish.
Warner and Wife
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Tapestries, to me, had always been dim and dowdy things ravaged by time that no one but an academic drudge could like.
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But not even Ricky Williams could prosper behind this line, ravaged by injuries and inconsistent play.
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Thus Demons found their way into the world, and great magic ravaged the lands.
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TWO men were being quizzed yesterday after yet another Victorian pier was ravaged by fire.
The Sun
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From his rockface eyrie he scoured the internet for advice on healing his ravaged fingertips.
Times, Sunday Times
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He knew he would have to face Darius at some point as the Great King could not allow him to ravage his empire unpunished.
Alexander the Great
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By his 40's, he had turned into a ravaged scarecrow, unrepentant about the trail of sorrow he had left behind.
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Then we suffered the ravages of war and the credit crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some history books have canonized people who have ravaged the rich and shared the treasure with the poor.
