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It is only natural to be scared of zombies, and to prevent them from laying waste to your home.
NEWYORKER: Shaun of the Dead
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Troops and militias reacted by laying waste to East Timor and slaughtering anyone they associated with the independence movement.
ECONOMIST: East Timor
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Together, Carol and Max picked up a long log and ran at a nest that had survived intact, laying waste to it.
NEWYORKER: Max at Sea
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The fighting has exacted a huge toll on the country, killing an estimated 70, 000 people and laying waste to cities, towns and villages.
NPR: Syrian Troops Capture Key Town Near Damascus
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By the late '60s, he was a University of Washington forestry student, a "young greenie" worried about clumsy ski-resort developers laying waste to nearby mountain passes.
WSJ: Paul Mathews of Ecosign, Scouting the World for Killer Ski Slopes | Creating
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Here we spend Act II straining to see whatever it is that's laying waste to the city, and Act III recoiling from glimpses of something unspeakable.
CNN: Review: 'Cloverfield' something to see
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Development is laying waste to the region's natural richness.
ECONOMIST: Banyan
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The truth is, of course, that any weapon as capable of being universally and cheaply made as long-duration landmines, and as useful for terrorizing or laying waste to civilian populations, will never be abolished.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: An aging flower child��s crusade
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Fingers have repeatedly been wagged at Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president, but he has always judged, correctly, that the western world had no serious intention of preventing him from laying waste one Kosovar village after another.
ECONOMIST: More killing in Kosovo