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Example sentences for "much damage"

  • For many years forest fires have caused as much damage as the lumbermen; but now most of the forests are patrolled by rangers during the summer, and there are fewer serious fires.

  • But when men destroy the carpet and take no care of the soil underneath, the raindrops are able to do as much damage as they do during the cloudbursts in the deserts.

  • In their hasty journey they do much damage to the unprotected soil.

  • Its construction was bad originally, and the violent jerks received in Possession Bay had done it much damage.

  • With a southerly wind it would not be advisable to attempt the strait; for, with a weather tide, the sea runs very cross and deep, and might severely injure and endanger the safety of a small vessel, and to a large one do much damage.

  • Volcanic eruptions in the Sangir Islands, Dutch East Indies; much damage to villages and plantations.

  • The armed merchant cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, which endeavoured to arrest traffic between England and the Cape, and the Cap Trafalgar were sunk before they could do much damage (Aug.

  • It was very provoking to have got within shot of a buccaneer which was reported to have committed so much damage to the trade of the islands, for, though the Spanish colours were still flying at her peak, no one doubted what she was.

  • She was no match for the German cruiser, but, before going down, it was his intention to do as much damage as possible to the enemy.

  • From what I have heard by wireless, our vessel attacked, but was sent to the bottom by the Emden before she could do much damage to the German.

  • Much damage is done to carobs by the large rat, Mus Alexandrinus.

  • Much damage is often caused by hot westerly winds at the time when the grain is just forming.

  • Much damage is also caused by rats (Mus alexandrinus), which gnaw the bark of the branches, causing them to dry up.

  • The Turnip Moth (Agrotis Segetum) This is another of those destructive insects that attack vegetable and flower gardens, often doing so much damage to our crops as to become quite a nuisance to cultivators.

  • Its wonderful jaws that did so much damage (for good or evil as the case may be) to the vegetable world are now gone, and the bulky digestive apparatus has rapidly dwindled to useless dimensions.

  • Most gardeners know that these are in some way or other connected with the caterpillars that do so much damage to their vegetables.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "much damage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lovely lady; much about; much amiss; much care; much danger; much dreaded; much ease; much finer; much flour; much from; much good; much indebted; much lesse; much liked; much lower; much pain; much pains; much respected; much service; much stronger; much success; much surprise; much surprised; much that; much wealth; much worse