1 The forest was ravaged by fire.

2 Bands of soldiers ravaged the countryside.

3 The area has been ravaged by drought/floods/war.

4 His health was gradually ravaged by drink and drugs.

5 The whole area was ravaged by forest fires.

6 The countryside has been ravaged by pollution.

7 My native village was ravaged seriously in the war.

8 For two decades the country has been ravaged by civil war and foreign intervention.

9 Early colonists ravaged native populations with syphilis and typhoid.

10 He died alone, his body ravaged by self- abuse.

11 And the economy, ravaged by revolution and war, collapsed.

12 His last years were ravaged by financial crises.

13 The invaders ravaged the countryside.

14 Ancient economies were routinely ravaged by high inflation, which almost always shakes the political structure until its leaders tumble down.

15 The natural habitats of Britain's wildlife have been ravaged by urban sprawl and pollution.

16 For nearly a month, doctors debated amputating his ravaged legs.

17 In the ensuing years the county was ravaged by plagues of grasshoppers.

18 In this country that has been ravaged by civil war even more than by drought, security is shaky.

19 Inside appeared a dark labyrinth of ravaged shelves behind plate glass still festooned with the posters advertising special Christmas bargains.

20 A ragged tear ravaged the painted face that looked back at her.

21 The Maastricht issue ravaged the party, and sapped the energy and authority of government and prime minister.

22 Peschisllibo ravaged Derby's defence in an exhilarating first half when Birmingham rocketed into a three goal lead.

23 The bamboo wall looked like a piece of furniture that had been ravaged by woodworm.

24 In 1954 he completed the restoration of the chapel, which was ravaged by death-watch beetle.

25 She had lost all pretensions to lady likeness as she clutched her ravaged bosom.

26 It would help create certainty for exporters and importers, who have been ravaged by the unpredictability of our currency.

27 There's a highly successful advertising executive, once handsome and athletic, now eaten away and ravaged.

28 But the incident at the US-controlled airport illustrated continuing security problems in a city ravaged by conflict and still stalked by muggers.

29 It was thus doomed to fail-but not before it had ravaged every society it touched.

30 The arguments are moral: the rich countries owe a debt for the ravaged resources of the Third World.

1 The forest was ravaged by fire.

2 The area has been ravaged by drought/floods/war.

31 Without women men revert to animals, without men women could heal and restore to harmony a world raped and ravaged.

32 Nick made a start at restoring the ravaged wreck, but sadly died before much was done.

33 The Civil War had brought an end to that; few could now afford to leave their ravaged homes.

34 The impact had caused a massive explosion which had ravaged the planet.

35 He was yet to reach his thirtieth birthday, Magee thought, but ravaged beyond his years.

36 Worcester was burnt, and the shire ravaged, but few people killed: they had fled in all directions.

37 The two things simply happened together: the place ravaged by hurricane, the man by something rnore complicated.

38 The conquering army ravaged the whole country.

39 Sorrow had ravaged her beauty.

40 The forest fire ravaged many miles of country.

41 The villages were ravaged by the enemy.

42 The Mataram forces systematically ravaged the surrounding country.

43 The Black Plague ravaged Europe.

44 A hurricane ravaged the island.

45 They had ravaged the countryside.

46 Iowa was ravaged by floods in June. The rising waters carried these boat houses downstream until they collided with a railroad bridge in Cedar Rapids.

47 At the office I have to hold copy for Van Norden. When it comes time for the break he pulls me aside. He looks glum and ravaged.

47 is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.

48 I left the alcohol alone, but I ravaged the trayful of pastries, leaving only crumpled paper wrappers.

49 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.

50 But in a country that had been ravaged by genocidal conflict, the progress is amazing.

51 As the film opens, a knight, Antonius Blok, and his squire, J?ns, have just returned from the Crusades to a Sweden being ravaged by the plague.

52 In this way self-flagellation ravaged their feelings, so do not want to feel the fear experienced once.

53 The Bresciani , which had ravaged many other producer's markets, were finally tamed by Davignon.

54 The benefit concert raised over $2 million for the victims of torrential flooding that ravaged the Nashville area last month.

55 The country has been ravaged by civil war and foreign intervention.

56 After the Navy hospital ship USS Mercy revisited areas of Southeast Asia ravaged by the tsunami last year, polls showed the favorable opinion of the U.S. rose to 87 percent in Bangladesh.

57 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.

58 He doesn't look emaciated or bald, and he doesn't appear to be overly ravaged by painkillers.

59 Said by a white Texan dynast in Ghana, an African country once ravaged by the slave trade, that unexceptionable insight might sound a shade patronising.

60 The two biggest in area, Sudan and Congo, are ravaged by strife and misgovernment .

61 But al-Shabab still controls the famine ravaged south, where 2.2-million people are believed to be in desperate straits.

62 "DEVELOPMENT depends on good governance. " Said by a white Texan dynast in Ghana, an African country once ravaged by the slave trade, that unexceptionable insight might sound a shade patronising.

63 The population of Kabul has expanded eight-fold, and streets ravaged by war are bustling with street markets.

64 For thousands of square miles they had ravaged the land like locusts.

65 American consuls warned that millions more were preparing to leave war - ravaged districts.

66 Today there are few reminders of the former ravaged and exploited Manchuria.

67 In February,[http:///ravaged.html] 173 people died in wildfires that ravaged parts of the southern Australian state of Victoria.

68 The recession has hit middle-income and poor families hardest, widening the economic gap between the richest and poorest Americans as rippling job layoffs ravaged household budgets.

69 Queensland Premier Anna Bligh 11, said the flood ravaged southeast Queensland in the last 24 hours, at least 10 people were killed and 78 were missing.

70 In fact, so highly regarded was Norton that in the early stages of Europe's recovery from phylloxera, Norton was earmarked as the varietal savior of their ravaged vineyards.

71 In the first, a young cannibal wanders a medieval, war - ravaged countryside devouring the weak.

72 Her body had wasted away to 61 pounds, ravaged by a heavy-duty crack cocaine addiction, hepatitis, HIV, and late-stage syphilis.

73 Analysts say the Scandinavian nation has long prided itself on having created a stable and peaceful society and on having avoided involvement in upheavals that ravaged much of the rest of Europe.

74 In the U.S., invasive species like the Rocky Mountain pine beetle, which has ravaged trees from Colorado to Montana, cause an estimated $120 billion worth of damage annually.

75 Freak storms have ravaged France's languedoc-roussillon region, threatening to damage the new wine crop by leaving some vineyards under water at the crucial harvesting stage.