Sentence examples for had been decimated from inspiring English sources

By 1983, that number had been decimated.

Within minutes, the refreshments had been decimated.

The group then known as Al Qaeda in Iraq, which dominated the insurgency, had been decimated.

"But you had a private construction industry that had been decimated," says Hearne.

It was Rwanda, whose population and institutions had been decimated by genocide in the 1990s.

The Catholic Relief Services CRSsaidagriculturalural fields in Jérémie had been "decimated".

Both Jihad and the Islamic Group had been decimated by defections and arrests.

The once-thriving city had been decimated even before the Taliban took over in 1996.

Freelance rates had been decimated; contract gigs were scarce and coveted.

Now that the Islamists had been decimated, the traditional system reasserted itself.

Even before the recent rally, exports from the 16-country euro area had been decimated.