Ravages

"Ravages" in a Sentence (5 examples)

It often ravages hunters' cabins and steals prey from traps.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

Daphnis, who quitting his goats had betaken himself to the woods to cut some green branches as winter-fodder for his kids, looked down from among the trees and witnessing the ravages promptly hid himself in the hollow of a decayed tree.

A bloodthirsty creature named Grendel ravages the great mead hall of King Hrothgar.

The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.

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