Sentence examples for had decimated from inspiring English sources

The falling pound against the dollar had decimated the business.

The Baltimore Ravens had decimated the Giants, 34-7, to win Super Bowl XXXV.

Nine years later, the authors had another story to tell: how disease had decimated their community.

He had heard from Drummond that some of the battalions they had decimated were already receiving replacements to start rebuilding.

But he had no choice because Obama had decimated the military, and it had to be rebuilt.

A captive-breeding and reintroduction programme was accompanied by vaccination against canine diseases, which had decimated numbers.

The drug was banned in May 2006, but by then it had decimated 95% of these birds.

Climate change during the northern hemisphere's several-century cool spell known as the "little ice age" had decimated the population.

His security forces had decimated ETA's ranks, but they were aware that remnants of the organization were attempting to stage a retaliatory attack in Madrid.

Bystanders on Thursday were quick to blame the plaza, saying the reduced traffic had decimated businesses, with tables perpetually staked out by vagrants.

By 1925 it had decimated the American chestnut population in an area extending over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) north, south, and west of its entry point.