Sentence examples for decimated building from inspiring English sources

He climbs into a decimated building, and after toying with a bit of broken pipe as if it were a gun, and scooting down a collapsed girder as if it were a playground slide, he turns and impassively walks off an open ledge, tumbling into the void.

The broken streets, destroyed alleyways and decimated buildings were a testament to the government's onslaught.

Decimated buildings and roads pock-mocked from blasts from I.E.D.'s – improvised explosive devices — were all that could be seen.

Anger over the schools surfaced in suspicious fires that decimated the buildings, most recently an arson attack last summer that destroyed a boarded-up building that once housed the Edmonton Indian Residential School in Alberta.

Jack runs outside in time to stop the Jackals from decimating the building with a Gatling gun.

Because on Oct. 29, when the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, it sent four feet of water surging up Manhattan and through the doors of the Ali Forney Center -- NYC's leading shelter for homeless LGBT youth -- decimating the building and incurring hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.

The 6.6 event on Sunday decimated the ancient building, hollowing its innards and thrusting its stone walls akimbo.

When a nearly three-quarter-mile-wide tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, around dinnertime a month ago, on May 22nd, it decimated thousands of buildings, killed over a hundred and fifty people, and left in its wake a town that looked like it had been passed through a supersized wood chipper, shattering the realities of its residents.

By Elissa Curtis June 22, 2011 When a nearly three-quarter-mile-wide tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, around dinnertime a month ago, on May 22nd, it decimated thousands of buildings, killed over a hundred and fifty people, and left in its wake a town that looked like it had been passed through a supersized wood chipper, shattering the realities of its residents.

Though the railroad improved the local economy, which had lagged after the end of the war, it decimated the wagon-building trade.

The show opened on the five-year anniversary of the disaster, situating frames filled with deteriorating buildings, decimated landscapes, and people in one place.