Use "decimated" in a sentence

1. The hole spread over a large area, possibly three or four metres across in places; muddy throughout its entire extent: deep, claggy, black mud, sloppy with water and dotted with bits of green from the decimated plants which had been wrenched from the ground by its making

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2. He looked around the room and saw the empty bottles of exotic juices, a tea set and the decimated bowl of fruit

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3. had destroyed all the crops and decimated the fields and

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4. The northern quarter, having been decimated by the Destroyer, continued to lie in ruins for the general population refused to near the blackened crater where the city's greatest monuments once stood

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5. gold? It disappeared beyond the city's decimated wall

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6. The cattle population had been decimated and there were no cars to fill the atmosphere with carbon monoxide

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7. they decimated an army!

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8. With their armies decimated so, the Makii would be forced to make an appearance

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9. long and taxing trip was on the verge of being decimated

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10. Now our lads were paying the butchers bill and quite a few laid dead and wounded but not nearly as many as the Fusiliers who it seemed were being decimated

11. It was now that we walked into a storm of shrapnel and machine gun bullets I could see mates of mine dropping on all sides and we hadn’t gone more than a few yards over the ground in front of us and we were already being decimated

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12. Turner decimated the ranks of the Directorate of Operations, his reasoning being that in all too many instances our field operatives were forced into relying on foreign nationals of less than savory character

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13. This was one of the biggest reasons we had been almost decimated that and the stupid order to walk

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14. Pictures of the building utterly decimated, still smouldering

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15. It lay in ruins, decimated, rubble from the ancient buildings and new office blocks mingled alike in a mile-wide scattering of stone

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16. A modern army, composed of the finest men and material in the world, had been moved recklessly into a death-trap, to be decimated by what proved to be a handful of half-starved Spaniards

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17. Units have been decimated within hours of arriving at the front, but we were doing very, very well

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18. had decimated half his town

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19. 11th, one company invited the remaining members of other companies who had been decimated by the attack on the Twin Towers to share their available office space

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20. monastery had been decimated by the ash plague

21. miles of the cave had been so decimated by the ash plague that

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22. The monsters had decimated each other in their internal war, and only a few dozen of them had escaped alive

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23. Our populations have been decimated by war more times than any other race

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24. His race was being decimated, the demons having arrived in the heart of gargoyle territory

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25. And on their twenty-third attempt, after a battle that lasted for eleven days, Zarkog’s decimated forces were forced to withdraw

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26. The troops who had been sent out to secretly flank the escapees had not only been discovered, they had been decimated by the sudden shaking of the ground

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27. had not only been discovered, they had been decimated by the sudden shaking of the ground

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28. He threw back his crimson cloak drawing his two distinctive Su-Katii blades, and with a war cry he charged into the decimated Tanarians’ fulfilling his bloodlust and completing his betrayal

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29. As they scanned the room, they noticed another decimated body scattered into pieces on the floor

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30. On seeing the growing panic the cavalry Commander decided that the day was lost, his small reserve force was massively undermanned – if they advanced into the fray, they too would be decimated

31. Groggily he had gathered up his weapons, removed a bag from Lewem’s decimated corpse and began to stagger back up through the eerie silence of the deserted shrine

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32. "Eat death you bastards!" he screamed at the window as another Rotham ship was decimated

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33. soon discover other decimated colonies

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34. Air Force responded by launching an intense bombing operation that forced the communists back into the countryside after being decimated by the air strikes

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35. ” And with that, Dave headed back to the Odyssey with only two jumps, each of which would have decimated both Olympic records in the long jump and pole vault

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36. They had decimated more than one pirate installation

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37. The ship that had single-handedly decimated his father’s forces and killed both his father and his brother was back

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38. hunting (trophy, hides and ranchers) and poaching have decimated

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39. should be aware that some species of sharks have been decimated

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40. ranchers) have decimated cheetah populations

41. Cougar populations have been decimated in eastern North

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42. Even after the Swordsman had turned to pursue, the missiles had their target locks and decimated the Swordsmen force

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43. Captain Osna said, “When half the country is decimated, it is easier to keep in touch with the other half, lad…”

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44. The message was clear, and failure to adhere to it almost decimated the earth and cost most life to be wiped out forever

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45. Now decimated and missing their leader and their explosives experts, the survivors broke ranks and ran across the main road, to the relative safety of the houses on the northern side

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46. She then spoke of her parents’ death from an epidemic while she was sixteen, how she left her decimated tribe to travel South, then West, to eventually stop in the Greek city-colony of Ephesus, on the coast of Asia Minor

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47. Their habitats, ranges, food supplies, and populations are being decimated by the palm oil industry

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48. “It is hard to give a solid assessment at this point, Herr FeldMarshal, but most of the SS leadership has been eliminated by the Time Patrol and their offices across Europe have been decimated

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49. the Ukrainian countryside has been virtually decimated through

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50. ‘’We had to interrupt our mission when the Neanderthal group we were studying was decimated by a pack of cave hyenas, Farah

51. ‘’We have our own Army Air Corps fighter pilots, formed and trained at great expense here in the United States, who are being decimated by the Japanese fighters and can barely hold their own

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52. Apart from celebrating the fact that American forces had ultimately won the battle for the Philippines, Arnold could further rejoice at the fact that this victory was mainly due to the work of his aviators, who had decimated the Japanese invasion fleet

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53. be fool enough with his finances to be decimated by such a catastrophe;

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54. Although they eventually prevailed, German paratroops and transport aircraft were decimated in the process

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55. The Luftwaffe decimated Bomber Command, and the only thing that the raid on Nuremberg achieved was to raise the morale of the Third Reich population

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56. By now his decimated assault waves were in full retreat, pursued by merciless rifle and machine gun fire

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57. The decimated and war weary Wehrmacht, fighting desperately to survive and prevent total defeat was near to total collapse

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58. The carrier-borne planes decimated enemy aerial and naval resistance, allowing the transports to take the fighting men to operational areas

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59. As of the last report I got at eight this morning, that Sino-Soviet invasion force has been largely decimated, with its vehicles, guns and supplies destroyed and with two thirds of its infantry wiped out

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60. Whether Attila’s forces weren’t decimated in the battle because Aetius foolishly thought the Huns would no longer be a threat to Rome, because he wanted to collect spoils of war for himself, because he was afraid to press the fight, or because the Roman allies couldn’t have finished off the Hun army as believed, it was unfortunate for the Romans because Attila returned to plunder the north of Italy the following year

61. Together with wars and famines, recurrent bouts of plague saw populations decimated

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62. This was the same tie he wore on Super Tuesday, when he decimated Boehner and Jeb and all the other Republicans

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63. If you are just turning in, tragedy struck this morning as a bomb decimated St

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64. With its armored cars quickly decimated by the assault shuttles, the ISF replied by sending its own assault shuttles and more ground troops, turning the battle into an epic confrontation that transformed the Navy compound into a field of ruins within an hour

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65. And now I’m beginning to think it was the winds of hurricane force that has decimated most of the life on this planet, and has sent the survivors racing to once again colonize Ar

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66. As a result, the enemy troopships were decimated and the rest of the Japanese ships were forced to sail away, leaving the few troops ashore at the time stranded and without supplies

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67. The 41st Bombardment Wing was sent earlier today to bomb a munitions factory in the Ruhr, but, apart from encountering the usual heavy German fighter and antiaircraft artillery response, was decimated by what seems to be a new German weapon

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68. At this rate one war and his people will be decimated

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69. After about seven hundred years of having their culture and its spiritual tradition decimated at the point of a Christian sword, these farmers and merchants went a Viking in defense of their homelands; but it was already too late

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70. That one Borg ship nearly decimated the entire fleet

71. “Are you saying because I decimated the Kelvan population, I ruined a chance at

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72. embarrassed by the public display of how one of her fleets had been decimated by a mere human, in addition to having to answer some hard questions by the Federation

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73. Many of God’s eagles have had their wings totally broken and decimated with some of the torpedo shots they have taken

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74. the Israelites and decimated their population more horrifically than the

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75. will be decimated within one hour

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76. With his newly found power Sam and Aylon together decimated the

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77. "That was the start of the Dragon Wars, in which the poor humans were decimated

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78. I had been decimated, spiritually, financially and

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79. Its turbulent history has decimated the fabric of the home

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80. The British forces were decimated and some 1,300 soldiers lost their lives in three hours of Zulu brutality in defense of their nation

81. Then one of the parties recognises that their back office people have made a terrible mistake in their calculations, the result of which is that their margin is decimated

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82. We think nothing of the forests that are decimated to meet our wants not our needs

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83. Soon the Lycanian forces began to overwhelm the Order, thus bringing about the decade-long Desolate Wars and by the time the struggle was over, the Order's numbers had been all but decimated

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84. The landscape as far as he could see was completely decimated

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85. Henri returned home to find his family decimated

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86. My income was decimated

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87. It occurs to me that we’ve been decimated

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88. One year ago, a deadly virus decimated the world leaving swarms of brain-eating zombies in its wake

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89. and decimated both of them, the selection process

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90. It was lucky that Ganesh led a fight back and decimated

91. few eastern tribes were completely decimated by the

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92. decimated by the plants, or more specifically, by

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