How do you use Ravage in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like destroy or ruin, plus the exact meaning.
Ravage meaning
- To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
- To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
- To wreak destruction.
Synonyms of Ravage
Using Ravage
- The main meaning on this page is: To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something. | To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack. | To wreak destruction.
- Useful related words include: destroy, ruin, desolate, devastate.
- In the example corpus, ravage often appears in combinations such as: to ravage, ravage the, and ravage.
Context around Ravage
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ravage
- In this selection, "ravage" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, miners, death, put, communities, leeds and yanomami stand out and add context to how "ravage" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and death ravage palestinians in and appeared to ravage and harass. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ravage" sits close to words such as abdicated, acme and afcfta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ravage
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They will threaten to ravage the environment. (7 words)
As miners ravage Yanomami lands, combat-trained environmentalists work to root them out. (13 words)
Conflicts increase greenhouse gas emissions and ravage the environment, polluting soil, water and air. (14 words)
As she saw more evidence of the crack epidemic that was starting to ravage what was then called South Central Los Angeles, she started a group called the Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, with the help of a federal grant. (43 words)
A cricket team can ravage a ball all it likes, but if its swing bowlers cannot pull off their tricks, all the team is left with is a prematurely old and decrepit ball and a long, fruitless time in the field. (41 words)
Surprisingly, the sexiest scene in the whole film doesn’t involve sex but a hungry first kiss — though there’s steam enough to come, as they ravage hotel rooms in Barcelona, Rome and Paris. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
A brutal cold snap could be triggered by a 'Sudden Stratospheric Warming' (SSW) over the North Pole which last time caused the 'Beast from the East' to ravage the UK five years ago.
As conflict and economic decline continue to ravage the country, urgent and intensified humanitarian support for rural communities is urgently needed.
But as galamsey continues to ravage communities, pollute water bodies, farmlands and destroy forest reserves, there is still no clear-cut way forward as to how to manage the threat.
Eldritch monsters have mysteriously appeared to ravage and harass the city of Baldur's Gate, and each character has a task to accomplish to stop them.
Exits are going to ravage Leeds United’s squad this summer, that much is clear, but Elland Road’s hierarchy will know not everyone can go.
Not only would this runoff destroy thousands of homes, it would also ravage a region that serves as the nation's foremost agricultural breadbasket.
As miners ravage Yanomami lands, combat-trained environmentalists work to root them out.
As well as causing anxiety and disease among soldiers, mice also ravage military and electrical equipment.
Conflicts increase greenhouse gas emissions and ravage the environment, polluting soil, water and air.
Six months after the Hamas attacks on Israel, war, disease, starvation and death ravage Palestinians in Gaza.
Surprisingly, the sexiest scene in the whole film doesn’t involve sex but a hungry first kiss — though there’s steam enough to come, as they ravage hotel rooms in Barcelona, Rome and Paris.
They will threaten to ravage the environment.
A cricket team can ravage a ball all it likes, but if its swing bowlers cannot pull off their tricks, all the team is left with is a prematurely old and decrepit ball and a long, fruitless time in the field.
Al Qaeda-linked terrorists have continued to ravage much of northern Mali since 2012.
AS Coronavirus continues to ravage many nations across the globe, its economic impact on different sectors is better imagined as such is still being collated on daily basis.
As she saw more evidence of the crack epidemic that was starting to ravage what was then called South Central Los Angeles, she started a group called the Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, with the help of a federal grant.
Australia’s large superannuation funds that hold more than $2 trillion in retirement savings are coming under increasing pressure to do more to help combat climate change, as bushfires continue to ravage the countryside.
Hunger must not ravage the casualties; our people should suffer no more, I repeat.
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Inflation continued to ravage the average Iranian household while unemployment deprived yet another generation of a meaningful future.
Common combinations with ravage
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: