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• The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.From the entry wreak
• The storm wreaked havoc on his garden.From the entry wreak havoc
• Trumpism has evolved completely into Muskism, and it needs neither Trump nor Musk to wreak its havoc.2025 April 2, Charlie Pierce, “What Happens to Elon Musk and Muskism Now?”, in Esquire. From the entry Muskism
• Although computer dictionaries have improved, the Cupertino effect still creates havoc.2015, Arhlene A. Flowers, Global Writing for Public Relations, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry Cupertino effect
• Lucie, for one, avoided the pool for the havoc it wrought on her blowdry.2012, Louise Candlish, chapter 21, in The Day You Saved My Life, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 299. From the entry blowdry
• In practice, this technological transhumation would wreak havoc on the earth.2011, Andrea Nightingale, Once Out of Nature: Augustine on Time and the Body, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry transhuman
• The prophet Nostradamus predicted the arrival of three anti-Christs who would wreak havoc on mankind.2009 September 9, Kathryn Shattuck, “What's On Today”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry anti-christ
• That’s because, historically, recessions have often wreaked havoc on stock portfolios.2007 December 9, Paul J. Lim, “The ‘R’ Word Doesn’t Have to Be So Scary”, in The New York Times. From the entry r-word
• Then we tried to outlast each other on the merry-go-whirl of havoc!1999, Mona the Vampire, "Von Kreepsula Runs Amok" (season 1, episode 2a). From the entry merry-go-whirl
• As you might guess, the crotch strap can wreak havoc on the privates.1995, Michael Benge, Duane Raleigh, Rock: Tools and Technique, Elk Mountain Press, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry diaper harness
• Who knows what humongous havoc he’s havocing while our hero’s hidden away.1993, Bill Myers, My Life As A Smashed Burrito With Extra Hot Sauce, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry havocing
• “It’s causing havoc on people’s organs,” Pichardo says of the medetomidine, which is causing even younger people to experience organ failure.2025 December 22, Mattha Busby, “‘It’s made things worse for everyone’: Philadelphia grapples with rise of new street drug. Medetomidine…. From the entry medetomidine
• I’ve seen the havoc that that knowledge, when it’s not safe for the person to know, has wreaked on their life.2024 October 14, Doc Impossible, “Let's Fly”, in Stained Glass Woman, Substack. From the entry egg prime directive
• Steven Adams and Enes Kanter wreaked havoc for Oklahoma City.2016 November 28, Mike Vorkunov, “Despite Flash of Rose’s Prime, Knicks Are Dazed by Westbrook and Thunder”, in The New York Times…. From the entry double double
• Thus, it is wise to avoid cultivating an emotional scar, as it can play havoc with your happiness and success.2011, O. P. Sharma, Be a Winner, →ISBN. From the entry scar
• The Italians could never have invented the pub quiz, as they keep changing teams and it plays havoc with the scoring.2010, Al Murray, The Pub Landlord's Great British Pub Quiz Book, Hachette, →ISBN. From the entry pub quiz
• Havoc is my middle name, so don't mess with me.2010, Andre Giordano, Bookalam Park: New York Love Story, page 97. From the entry is my middle name
• The huge quantity of landings was periodically causing fish prices to crash, creating unprecedented havoc in the marketplace.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 132. From the entry landing
• Tenderis opened the door to find no heanlings huddling in hudder-mudder, preparing to wreak havoc with their devilshine.1977, Susan Kelz Sperling, Poplollies and bellibones. From the entry heanling
• Wind and lightning havocked, berserked in wires, trees.1966, Robert Hayden, “Electrical Storm”, in Selected Poems, New York, N.Y.: October House Inc., →LCCN, page 13. From the entry berserk
• War and mortality cry havoc, yet the center holds.1961 Aug, George Steiner, “Homer and the Scholars”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 77. From the entry cry havoc
• “Having the snowouts created havoc in our schedule throughout the season and provided a potential excuse,” Indians General Manager Mark Shapiro said.2007 September 30, Murray Chass, “Traveling Home Show Takes Indians to Playoffs”, in New York Times. From the entry snowout
• "Frankenfood" carries connotations of mad scientists dabbling in Things Man Was Not Meant To Know and releasing their products into the environment to wreak havoc.1994, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, volume 114, number 11, page 5. From the entry frankenword
• Too much fun in the sun (and salt water and chlorinated pools) can wreak havoc with even the healthiest hair, leaving it dry and dull.1992, Kathleen Walas, Real Beauty Real Women, page 134. From the entry summerproof
• The kobolde’s box was always kept locked, and only his master could open it without allowing the kobolde to escape and wreak havoc.1981 December, Carrol B. Fleming, “Why do elf stories still exist?”, in Science 81, volume 2, number 10, page 112, column 2. From the entry kobolde
• Sometimes, at business meetings, bazaars, banquets, decoratings, celebratings, and what not, our animosities like wild tigers escape and create havoc in the flock.1961, Leonard J. Lea, Views from the Mountain, page 162. From the entry celebrating
• Nothing could better describe the numb-skulled thinking behind the havoc that President Donald Trump and his trade Rasputin, Peter Navarro, have wrought on the global economy.2025 May 5, “This time really is different for the dollar, writes Kenneth Rogoff”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 05 May…. From the entry Rasputin
• No, this is not a creche: nippers should not be running around, fighting under the pool table or generally creating havoc (this applies to dogs, too).2018 June 6, Tony Naylor, “The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry nipper
• During certain weather conditions such as "Kona winds," the vog can settle over the Islands and wreak havoc with respiratory and other health conditions, especially asthma or emphysema.2013, Karen Anderson et al., Fodor’s 2014 Hawaii, New York, N.Y.: Fodor's Travel, →ISBN. From the entry vog
• The implication is that the snapshotter, because of his unwillingness to slow down and perceive the complexity of the unmediated landscape, could only wreak havoc with his camera.2010, Eric Gordon, The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities from Kodak to Google, UPNE, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry snapshotter
• They don't belong here and can create rampant havoc when let loose upon local ecosystems, the Cane Toad and the Prickly Pear being two infamous non-bird examples.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 43. From the entry nonbird
• For Barthes, the task of the novelist is to unexpress what has already been expressed, to deliberately play havoc with what is undeniably — and therefore frustratingly — true.1978, Alexander Welsh, editor, Narrative Endings, page 95. From the entry unexpress
• Irene's behavior when she is high on GBs, which is most of the time, has created such havoc in the neighborhood restaurants that they no longer let her in.1965 February 26, James Mills, “The World of Needle Park”, in Time, volume 58, number 8, page 82. From the entry GB
• The administration’s actions, White wrote, “uniformly wreaked havoc not only on the lives of Plaintiffs here but on similarly situated F-1 nonimmigrants across the United States and continues do so.”2025 May 22, Devan Cole, “Federal judge blocks Trump administration from ending legal status for foreign students attending US schools”…. From the entry nonimmigrant
• The disease . . . plays havoc with mood, personality, perception and thought, and can require constant adjustments by friends and relatives just to keep life on an even keel.2007 December 26, Denise Grady, “Coping With Alzheimer’s: Disease Brings Drastic Changes to Patients, and Stress to Family Members”, in…. From the entry even keel

Meaning of havoc

1. noun Widespread devastation and destruction.
2. noun Mayhem.
3. verb To pillage.

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Questions about havoc in a sentence

How do you use havoc in a sentence?

Havoc is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.”

What is a short sentence with havoc?

“The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.”

What does havoc mean?

Havoc means widespread devastation and destruction.