Others understand all this of an army of locusts laying waste the land.

Through Picardy he marched eastward burning and laying waste as before.

The Spaniards, Germans, and Lorrainers are in the suburbs laying waste the very gardens.

The monster was speedily approaching, laying waste all before it.

Then into Wessex went Eadmund, ravaging and laying waste there.

I stared at the monster laying waste to the city.

They're laying waste to their whole top floor, those boys.

The soldiers are going about in bands destroying and laying waste every house and garden.

Simple: laying waste to North Korea, and maybe Iran.

A civil war which is laying waste the country.

But on Tuesday our army will surely march, laying waste the Indian towns and fields.

Her people now had the job of redressing the matter by laying waste to Amber.

Domestic cats in Kaikōura are laying waste to the eggs of a rare shore bird.

Martians invade Great Britain, laying waste turn-of-the-century London.

They then changed their tactics and retired before him, laying waste the country as they went.

Plant species have climbed uphill, and bark beetles are laying waste to ever-increasing tracts of woodland.