In the same Vedic hymn where the flame of Agnis beats down the heads of the monster that torments horses, Agnis (that is, fire) is invoked in order that the hero Rebhas may see the monster which devastates with its claws.
Ivan the fool watches during the night to surprise the horse which devastates his father's crops, and succeeds in binding it with rods from a linden-tree, after it has smelt the odour of tobacco.
The horse-monster that devastates the field surprised by the hero, and destroyed by fire, in the Rigvedas.
After this, Sigeferth, the pirate, lands from his fleet in Northumbria, and twice devastates the coast, after which he returns home.
In the course of the same year, Hasten breaks away with his band from Bamfleet, and devastates all Mercia, until they arrive at the end of Britain.
If he does not obey the commands of the church, or breaks the peace, or seizes or devastates the land of the church or of her vassals, they shall aid the church against him.
Immediately the young Burchart [son of Burchart] rebels against the king anddevastates his own fatherland.
I cannot stand by and see the hailstorm of corruption that devastates our unhappy country.
The lawyer then consoles the inhabitants of Beaunois with the reflection that the scourge which vexes them devastates other countries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "devastates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
