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
Mr. Algrai is among dozens of Sudanese artists and curators who have fled their studios and galleries as two warring generals lay waste to one of Africa’s largest and most geopolitically important nations.
From New York Times • May 28, 2023
All that can contaminate water and soil, not to mention lay waste to large tracts of land.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2022
That fascination has infested me today like the wood-eating bugs that slowly lay waste to our house.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
