Sentence example with the word 'ravaging'

ravaging

Definition adj. ruinously destructive and wasting

Last update: June 15, 2015


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However, when ravaging the country near Alnwick, William was taken prisoner in July 1174, and after a short captivity at Richmond was carried to Normandy, where he soon purchased his release by assenting in December 1174 to the treaty of Falaise.   [Please select]

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Together they advanced upon the Roman territory, and after ravaging the country threatened to besiege Rome.   [Please select]

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For some weeks the buccaneers remained in the Bay of Panama, capturing vessels and ravaging the adjacent islands.   [Please select]

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Nevertheless, I had the courage to start afresh, this time on a Mole caught ravaging a bed of lettuces.   [Please select]

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--A Spartan army was soon overrunning Attica, while an Athenian fleet was ravaging the coasts of the Peloponnesus.   [Please select]

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Meanwhile the barbarians had advanced into Etruria, ravaging the country as they moved southward.   [Please select]

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Already the barbarians had defeated the Roman army under the nobleman Catulus, and were ravaging the rich plains of the Po.   [Please select]

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