laid waste

Continual shelling laid waste vast areas of farmland all along the front line.

In less than an hour's time, the typhoon laid waste a number of towns and villages along the coast.

Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.

But before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

When the End of Words arrives, the fire will be driven from our hearts, and the efforts of the ages will be laid waste by the Betrayer.

even genghis khan , who laid waste to this valley ' s towns and population in the 13th century , had left the buddhas standing.

to make a landing in the country and take revenge on those who devastated our land and laid waste many cities in my kingdom. Now, therefore.

Much of Imperial City was laid waste by the fighting, and the New Republic was forced to evacuate.

As far as online sales go, Amazon has laid waste to a list of successively higher-caliber competitors.

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening!

With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

Their land will be laid waste, an object of lasting scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.

11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

In the savage fighting, Germany itself was laid waste, the towns and countryside were devastated and ravished, the people decimated .

It is true, O Lord , that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands.

American cities and university campuses were laid waste in the late 1960s; Richard Nixon was duly elected and re-elected.

Enemy soldiers laid waste the land.

The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The Lord has spoken this word.

Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her towns will become desolate, with no one to live in them.

The invading armies laid waste the countryside.

The whole area was laid waste by the advancing army.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

Outraged, Tai Lung laid waste to the Valley.

A once-thriving China has long been laid waste.

In reality, it is 200 years later, and the world has been laid waste and taken over by advanced artificial intelligence machines.

he laid waste to the village