ravaging

• She watched the trains crash as cracks tore through the model landscape like a ravaging earthquake. —  Marv wolfman - Superman Returns
• We know what happened in them insofar as army movements are concerned, and the heartbreaking re-occupation of towns and villages where French and American restoration squads were working to make habitable those places the Huns had laid waste; and the continued shelling of Paris by the “mystery gun”; and the great exodus of civilians from the capital as the ravaging hordes drew nearer and always nearer. —  Foch the Man
• This stupid ravaging was against the interest of the Vandals themselves, because they were injuring the natural riches of Africa, the report of which had brought them there. —  Saint Augustin
• Considering the want and suffering their progress-ravaging and unnecessary policies would inflict on people worldwide, particularly the poor and sickly in developing countries, it is they and he who threaten the health and well-being of "countless" billions among the earth's population of 6.77 billion. —  American Thinker
• You were rebelling, ravaging, and murdering Go on," said Jean. —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance

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