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• The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.From the entry ravages
• The ravages of war and the nation's megatragedy had not touched the Platupes.2015, Melanija Vanaga, Suddenly, a Criminal: Sixteen Years in Siberia, page 305. From the entry megatragedy
• Ravaged and unpetalled, the rose twists its thin stem into the void.1994, Sylvie Germain, The Medusa Child. From the entry unpetalled
• The caption, of a Tarzan cruelly ravaged by time, is 'But even the beautiful can age.'1993 November 28, “You never forget a good nanny”, in The Guardian, Manchester. From the entry Tarzan
• Ravages of ‘demon claws and teeth’; corpses ‘mangled, chewed and clawed’.1975, Angela Carter, “The Hidden Child”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 546. From the entry necrophagic
• The fishers who live here left for the mainland only days ago as an unseasonable October storm ravaged the islands.2021 December, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 43, column 1. From the entry fisher
• There, captured in the wonderglow, sterilized and motionless, were all the things that had ravaged him and finally left him lame.2019, James Webb, Fields of Fire. From the entry wonderglow
• I'm doing my bit preserving them for posterity, and saving nicer ones from the ravages of banger racing."2016 January 2, Andrew B Roberts, quoting Jon Culshaw, “Jon Culshaw: Why I love old Fords”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry banger racing
• Allen Ginsberg omming like a death rattle, his voice ravaged by the days of Hindu chants and gas.1996, Nora Sayre, Sixties Going on Seventies, page 14. From the entry om
• The trans community is also ravaged by aids; we need aids education and services that are offered in trans-friendly space.1996, Leslie Feinberg, Transgender warriors: making history from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, page 125. From the entry trans-friendly
• The plague, inevitable companion of Mars, ravaged the populace.1975, Helen Diane Russell, Jeffrey Blanchard, Jacques Callot: Prints & Related Drawings, Issue 21, page 10. From the entry mars
• Look at the ravages from which our people are suffering daily as a result of being contaminated with Jewish blood.1925–26, Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, translation from German to English by James Murphy, 1939. From the entry Aryan
• Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.2020 November 13, Ligaya Mishan, “Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses”, in The New York Times…. From the entry gout
• The process began 50 years ago when Europe’s elms were ravaged by the beetle-borne fungal malady misnamed ʻDutch elm diseaseʼ (which, in fact, is Asian).2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 296. From the entry Dutch elm disease
• I was terribly scared by Idi Amin's animosity that iron handedly ravaged the earth as if he was from a different planet.2010, Stephen Kyeyune, When God Calls a Man, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry iron handedly
• They walked with an ease that bespoke strength, bespoke limbs that had never been cracked and mismended, never felt the ravages of age.2010, Clive Barker, Galilee, page 80. From the entry mismend
• When those onnagata gender acts representing that idealized beauty are ravaged, the figure that emerges is chaotic and unbalanced, it's gender vague and ambiguous.2005, K. Mezur, Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness, →ISBN. From the entry gender vague
• During the nineteenth century, parts of Shantung and Honan provinces and much of Anhwei were ravaged by the Nien bandits from Huai-pei.2002, Annping Chin, Four Sisters of Hofei, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3. From the entry Anhwei
• On May 12 the disease was “creating fearful ravages among all the northern tribes,” but the Songhees were on Discovery and had no cases.a. 1968, BC Studies, University of British Columbia Press. From the entry clattawa
• In an age dominated by tweets and texts, it is quite easy to forget—or at least be distanced from—the chaos and warfare that ravages the world today.2015 March 18, Luka Ciklovan, The Tribune, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2023. From the entry Tinderite
• That smallpox could ravage London in the mid-nineteenth century, despite the existence of a new medical measure to prevent it, was a source of great frustration to the vaccinationists.2013, John Rhodes, “The Teeming Humanity of Nations”, in The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease, New York, NY…. From the entry vaccinationist
• There may not be anything seditious about his music, but plundering and ravaging the tracks needed to create it requires a spirit of rebellion at odds with corporate organization.2010, Jonathon Keats, Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry seditious
• Jeanne sucked back air in a gasp; the ravaged face of this pretty woman, powderless, splotched, and tearstained, one she had known for a lifetime, was frightening.2009, Donna Russo Morin, chapter 17, in The Courtier’s Secret, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry powderless
• While the ravaging fires in Australia and Europe received wide media coverage, 1 million hectares of larch forests were wiped out on the Ta-hsing-an-ling mountain in north-eastern China (H.1993, Nengah Wirawan, “The Hazard of Fire”, in Harold Brookfield, Yvonne Byron, editors, South-East Asia's Environmental Future: The…. From the entry larch
• The result as we saw it was a terrible one, and we could fancy the nerve-wreck of Charles Baudelaire, before the bow snapped, from the ravaged picture before us.1920, Martin Birnbaum, Oscar Wilde: Fragments and Memories, page 15. From the entry nerve-wreck
• After “living the life of Riley” for over a year, successfully evading the pitchforks and the bullets of the farmers, whose fields she ravaged in all four seasons.1911, “Bullet Ends Life of Famous Wild Cow”, The Hartford Courant, December 1911. From the entry life of Riley
• Early one morning the sub-inspector at a police station the other end of the town rang me up on the 'phone and said that an elephant was ravaging the bazaar.1936, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Shooting an Elephant”, in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, London: Secker and…. From the entry must

Meaning of ravage

1. verb To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
2. verb To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
3. verb To wreak destruction.

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Questions about ravage in a sentence

How do you use ravage in a sentence?

Ravage is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.”

What is a short sentence with ravage?

“the ravages of time”

What does ravage mean?

Ravage means to devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.