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How to use ravished in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ravished? Here are some examples.

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I'm angry because I feel like this generation is being ravished by depression and despair.
Famine and disease had ravished and dispirited the people and emigration had drained the land of most of its youth.
Is that what you said to the daughter of Merewala when you killed her father and ravished her?
She would be too ashamed to confide in the abbess about how she was ravished by a stranger.
After three months, she allowed herself to be married off to Bothwell, the chief suspect, after he abducted and ravished her.
Our women are ravished before our very eyes and our old men are not honoured.
In The Notebook, we see the brothers as children, strangers in a country ravished by conflict.
In his second letter to the Corinthians, the apostle Paul informs his readers that he had earlier been ravished up to heaven.
In order to achieve his amorous designs, Zeus frequently assumed animal forms, such as that of a cuckoo when he ravished Hera, a swan when he ravished Leda, or a bull when he carried off Europa.
But the Merkit people, a tribe living in northern Mongolia, bore Temüjin a grudge, because Yesügei had stolen his own wife, Höelün, from one of their men, and in their turn they ravished Temüjin's wife Börte.
In 676 he ravished Kent, taking Rochester.
The heart is ravished by her humble and sad, yet motherly gaze.
It ravished everything inside the tent within seconds.
The vibrant proletariat which had accomplished the 1917 Revolution had practically ceased to exist as a class and famine ravished the countryside.
He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him.
The money will be used to purchase new uniforms, badges etc that the Scouts and Guides lost during the disastrous bush fires that ravished Victoria some 18 months ago.
Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer.
Examples from Classical Literature
This daughter was ravished from her by self-violence, and her other children by disease.
And now he was ravished, rapt away on the wings of paradisaical ecstasy by a something that consisted of kidney and a few eggs.
Mildred adorned her Psalter with the ravished hair and sent it to her mother.
There was a simultaneous sigh, which created quite a little gust, as the last hope fled, and the treat was ravished from their longing lips.
At Weymouth and at Portland they have murdered and ravished.
Ravished by the vision, he proceeded to write and rewrite the peroration.
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