Being severely destructive.
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Examples for "devastating "
Examples for "devastating "
1 Of course, that onetime injection has a devastating long-term cost: climate change.
2 The wrong words at the wrong time can create devastating emotional scars.
3 However, experts say this won't be enough to end the devastating war.
4 Lewis' verdict for the future of the global oil industry is devastating .
5 This year is set to become the most devastating season since 2001.
1 You've suffered a cataclysmic loss, Emma, and we're going to help you.
2 She imagined herself as traveling in a new orbit, amid cataclysmic forces.
3 An old pike immediately brings to mind the cataclysmic violence of 1798.
4 And it's not any reason to have a cataclysmic bust-up, Christine said.
5 It had a cataclysmic effect on Edward, now the only remaining brother.
1 Ten seconds later this cataclysmal lunatic had reverted to sanity- arathersheepish sanity.
2 This cataclysmal desire drew me by day and by night.
3 Perhaps she's so deaf that nothing short of a cataclysmal uproar will reach her auditory nerves.'
4 The cataclysmal force to which we owe
5 He says it was bloodcurdling, horrible, cataclysmal .
6 Miss Quincey was quite shaken by this cataclysmal outbreak, this overturning and shattering of the old beacons and landmarks.
7 Some cataclysmal upheaval would seem to account for such disrupture rather than the infinitely slow processes suggested by geological history.
8 You must figure the tumult suddenly striking on the unstable equilibrium of old Fletcher's planks and two chairs , - with cataclysmal results.
9 Nothing short of the cataclysmal end of the world could have provided drama to match the stupendous stage-setting of that stormy sky.
10 In fact she's given the album the hardly less cataclysmal title Mother Of Gloom, a phrase cribbed from a Martha Wainwright song.
11 But geologists are becoming more and more loath to call in the cataclysmal to explain any feature of the topography of the land.
12 Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two.
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