lay waste
Example Sentences
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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
It doesn’t feel that righteous, after all, to barrel into an undiscovered place and lay waste to its noble, magical creatures or even its largely sympathetic villains.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024
All that can contaminate water and soil, not to mention lay waste to large tracts of land.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2022
That way lies the madness of the Alpha Couple, willing to lay waste to everything in the name of true love.
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2021
There was no kindness, no gentleness to this departure; nothing human, but rather a degeneration into some demonic substratum of the body that had waited to lay waste to all the lineaments of grace.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
