1.   These figures move slowly around a terrain apparently laid waste by some great disaster.

2.   Two months ago rains flooded the Incomati river and laid waste to part of the southern end of the town.

3.   His defences might be intact, but hers were in ruins, laid waste by a man she hardly knew and yet loved with all her heart.

4.   And remember that ad for Stainmaster Carpets, with the kid in the baby walker laying waste to a beautiful home?

5.   And one result was that Serbian forces could continue laying waste to Kosovo.

6.   A decade ago, the Phylloxera root louse laid waste to vineyards.

7.   Cameras and pilots cannot peer into caves, for instance, or assess the number of dead in the two villages that were laid waste by bombs.

8.   Civil war has laid waste to Sierra Leone for eight years.

9.   Emboldened by a sense that President Clinton was vulnerable and that they could oppose him with impunity, Republicans laid waste to most of his legislative agenda this year.

10.   Even before the U.S. push to oust the Taliban from power got under way last fall, more than two decades of war had laid waste to Afghanistan.