Examples of 'lay waste' in a sentence
Meaning of "lay waste"
This phrase means to cause widespread destruction or devastation, often through acts of violence or neglect. It implies that a particular area or region has been completely ruined or rendered uninhabitable due to the loss or ruination of resources, infrastructure, or natural beauty. It can also be used metaphorically to describe the ruin or destruction of something intangible, such as a person's dreams or a relationship
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- To completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.
- simple past tense of lie waste
How to use "lay waste" in a sentence
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But it will also lay waste to imagination.
You lay waste to my life once before.
Destruction in this case is to annihilate or lay waste.
I sometimes lay waste to the precinct fridge.
Then we will really lay waste.
Enough to lay waste to this city.
Lay waste to the entire continent.
I was ordered to lay waste to an entire village.
Your vessel could lay waste.
I will lay waste to your bunghole.
Wanted to simply lay waste.
I will lay waste to your cities.
I am not a vengeful demon who wants to lay waste to mankind.
We shall lay waste to your world.
He shall overthrow the mighty and lay waste their temples.
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It will lay waste to her psyche.
That sonic speed was enough for it to lay waste to numerous enemies.
It will lay waste to social confidence.
Like an unstoppable force of destructive power that would just lay waste to everything.
You will lay waste to everything.
Huge battle tanks and war planes quickly lay waste to the city.
And lay waste to your home.
A lion has come to lay waste to your land.
It is lay waste in a literal or figurative sense.
It would likely even lay waste to entire armies.
Lay waste to all decepticons.
I have watched you lay waste to every challenge.
I lay waste to their cities.
We would only lay waste to ourselves.
Lay waste to my city.
Let me lay waste to it.
The new arrivals joined their stolen fellows and continued to lay waste to the base.
It will lay waste to appetite.
WRI is interested in ensuring that future growth does not lay waste to remaining forests.
To lay waste to our world.
Jameson lay waste.
Then lay waste to anyone who stands in our way.
Like a forest fire and lay waste the lands of men.
We will lay waste to armies and burn cities to the ground.
He intends to desolate and lay waste the English.
They would lay waste to the life before them.
General Howe elected to depart Boston in peace rather than lay waste to the city.
I could simply lay waste to any agents who stand in my way.
I will use him to become regent and then I will lay waste to his happiness.
And lay waste to all who would deny our master.
Humiliate the Greeks and lay waste to their tiny ships.
He will lay waste to the countryside just for the pleasure of it.
With the help of foreigners I will lay waste to the land and everything in it.
I will lay waste mountains and hills and dry up their vegetation.
My Eternal Warrior stands poised to lay waste to your temple.
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