Devastation used in a sentence

Devastation in a sentence as a noun

I watched bitcoin slide to $50 in a state of complete and utter devastation.

Your reaction will only bring more devastation to those who are not involved in these actions.

Big payday for military suppliers, much devastation for the people living there.

I saw the devastation of Hurricane Andrew firsthand, and that didn't slow anything down.

What we have to figure out is this: How much liberty do we all give up, to limit the devastation of the senseless acts of a few?

Eternal September was nothing compared to the devastation caused by blogs and twitter.

How many innocent kids would be dead today?> How much liberty do we all give up, to limit the devastation of the senseless acts of a few?Liberty?

For example, Mao really didn't seem to care about the potential devastation of nuclear war: "Let us imagine how many people would die if war breaks out.

People use "decimation" as a synonym for "devastation" but that's not correct, because "decimation" is a controlled, small reduction of force.

The storm surge in Tacloban was estimated at 6m, sweeping away even concrete buildings, and bringing the sort of devastation so reminiscent of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

The probability of a disaster is uncontrollable anywhere you live, the extent of devastation is controllable.

Releases of radioactive materials from a meltdown like Fukushima are barely above normal radioactive background noise and simply will not cause the devastation people believe it will.

You'd think Taleb would have an immediate intuitive sense of how "once in a million year" accidents fit our narrative biases, but the slow-motion devastation of large areas of the US and the deaths of tens of thousands of people attributable to inhaled fossil fuel pollution don't.

That is a nice triplet of reasons but all of them occur after the decline of the silk road in the mid-fourteenth century with the devastation of the black death that economically weakened Europe and directly contributed to the the fragmentation of the mongol empire.

> Having witnessed first hand the devastation and destruction in Hackney - most small business owners who lost pretty much their whole lively hoods would state that the sentences being handed out aren't enough - and I whole heartedly agreeThat's why a neutral judge does the judging in a trial and not the biased victims.

> How would you feel about an unending stream of > tourists arriving daily in your hometown to pick > over the carcasses of your ruined neighborhoods, > taking pictures of devastation to show their friends, > stealing souvenirs to hang on their walls at home, > and leaving without making even the slightest effort > to understand or improve the condition of your city?