Sentence examples for decimated it from inspiring English sources

Once the breadbasket of the South, the Shenandoah Valley was so decimated, it was said, "a crow flying over would have to carry its own knapsack".

"They decimated it in the 1960s and 1970s".

If there is a general election soon, as it appears may be the case, Labour could be decimated, it is said.

In the case of a person whose self worth or humanity has been decimated, it is a matter of being open to the possibility that just maybe she is worthy of a little dignity and respect.

But Al Qaeda, it became horrifyingly clear a week later in Riyadh, was not decimated; it was sufficiently undecimated to murder 34 people, injure 200 and scare the daylights out of Americans everywhere.

"The country is being decimated, it's falling to pieces, and no one seems to be able to put a halt to it".

The old insurrectionaries wanted to destroy the government; the new ones wish merely to decimate it.

Nothing has done more to decimate it than Michael Lewis's new book, Flash Boys, which focuses on the predatory behavior of high-frequency trading.

And if someone's business model is so marginal that an Oxfam shop opening nearby decimates it, then we are not the problem".

"I think it's tragic that AARP would, wittingly or unwittingly, play into the hands of people who have never really liked Social Security and want to decimate it," Mr. Richtman said.

What do you do on a daily basis?" That's important because you can put the wrong person in a job, and you can take a great department and just decimate it in no time with the wrong person.