lay waste
Example Sentences
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All that can contaminate water and soil, not to mention lay waste to large tracts of land.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2022
In the ultra-competitive social-media field, cutbacks can give competitors a lane to lay waste to your business.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2022
But by March 2013, he’d be dead of cancer, and you could feel something malignant about to lay waste to his country’s social and economic body.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
At the end of Reeves’ film, Paul Dano’s Riddler, his vengeful plot to lay waste to Gotham foiled, or at least mitigated, by Batman, is incarcerated in Arkham Asylum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 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
