How to Use lay waste to in a Sentence

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• Our home movies and commercial projects both gather power, as the years lay waste to us all.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2022
• This was the entertainment machine that would lay waste to your friends.
  — Dia Lacina, Wired, 5 Nov. 2020
• Hurricanes, typhoons and tsunamis might lay waste to large swaths of land along the coast of a continent (and all the islands off shore).
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022
• All that can contaminate water and soil, not to mention lay waste to large tracts of land.
  — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 1 Nov. 2022
• Yet, Wilder still has that devastating one-punch knockout power that could lay waste to any fighter at any time.
  — Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• And on that sweet bed of nothing, and only that sweet bed of nothing, Drexel and its allies were able to lay waste to corporate America.
  — Bob Ivry, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
• Just one alcoholic primate denied of spirits can lay waste to hundreds of humans.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 19 June 2020
• Their intense tropical sun and high humidity could lay waste to even the most modern and high-tech of buildings if left untouched for centuries.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
• Even if no side wants a war, there is a growing risk of a superpower confrontation that could ultimately lay waste to Taiwan.
  — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022
• Fenyx faces Typhon, a powerful titan once imprisoned in Tartarus who manages to escape and lay waste to the mythological gods.
  — Gieson Cacho, Star Tribune, 9 Dec. 2020
• Further, this new research posits that massive volcanos on the surface of the planet may have helped lay waste to a lusher, greener ancient Venus that scientists believe once existed.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 Nov. 2022
• Anxiety over the swarms, which can quickly lay waste to vast swaths of crops, grew as the coronavirus pandemic emerged and decimated economies, further stretching governments.
  — David Herbling, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2020
• If anything, inflation’s potential to lay waste to near-and-dear but outmoded government arrangements is even greater today.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 14 June 2022
• The scholar, fully corrupted by the flowers’ magic and seeing himself as a God-King, simultaneously proceeds to lay waste to all challengers in his quest for world domination.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• If the simulation is accurate, America needs to respond fast to a Chinese attack, and bolster Taiwanese defenses before invading forces can lay waste to Taipei.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 6 July 2021
• Devastating hurricanes that lay waste to whole communities.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024