lay waste
Example Sentences
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The trebuchet was the most fearsome weapon of medieval times, a giant catapult that could lay waste to any fortress by battering its walls with boulders.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
Nick Cage wrote: “Hopefulness is not a neutral position.... It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025
All that can contaminate water and soil, not to mention lay waste to large tracts of land.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2022
Now, Francis thinks, “there was clearly no need for a war to lay waste to the biosphere; all that was needed was business as usual.”
From New York Times ● May 31, 2021
That fascination has infested me today like the wood-eating bugs that slowly lay waste to our house.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
