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How to use devastating in a sentence

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While both may exert the same amount of total energy measured in foot-pounds, the rapid transfer of the punch is far more devastating.
In an immune-compromised patient, invasive aspergillosis is a devastating disease that can present in this fashion and often eludes diagnosis.
It is a fact that the single most devastating killer of small birds is the domestic cat.
Though not a long-range projectile, they are devastating when used at practical distances.
Firearm users who take alcoholic drinks can make very poor decisions and shoot foolhardily, with devastating consequences.
Portugal is battling its most devastating forest fires for a decade, as strong wind fan the flames.
Also because share prices and indices can be that much more volatile the consequences can be quite devastating should things go wrong.
It's only quite recently that the long-lasting and devastating effects of such chemicals on wildlife have come to light.
So with a rail strike cutting services to ribbons, the impact on York was guaranteed to be devastating.
Her work in Vera Drake is so fully rounded, richly detailed and emotionally devastating that there really is no competition.
Without a doubt, Boys Don't Cry is the most devastating portrayal of violence done to women I have ever seen in a film.
This is an epidemic that is devastating the world and serves as a spotlight on the inequalities that are rife throughout the global economy.
The committee's unprecedented trawl through the secret world of British intelligence makes devastating reading for Blair.
The famine originated with the recurrent failure of the potato crop, devastating the Irish cottier and small farmer classes.
They don't want to raise risks of a devastating conflict with the mainland.
Detectives are scouring court lists as they try to trace the arsonists responsible for a devastating attack on York Crown Court.
That's because fungal diseases like witches broom and frosty pod rot are devastating cacao crops in Central and South America.
On July 9, 1984, York Minster was hit by a devastating fire, leaving its famous rose window in shattered fragments.
Both films take place in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that rocked northern Iran in 1990, killing nearly 50,000 people.
From there, the polluted water flowed west, devastating aquatic life in the Tisa River.
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