Sentence examples for it was decimated from inspiring English sources

"It was an élite school at one point, but Thomas felt it was decimated by integration".

It was decimated and there was a lot of population erosion, homes boarded up and hulks of buildings lying fallow".

In Scotland, it was decimated by the Scottish National Party; in England, it lost a significant number of votes to the anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party.

Rolle, 27, fills a significant need for the Giants, who are in the throes of rebuilding their defense after it collapsed last season, when it was decimated by injuries.

A former executive at Salomon Brothers, he came out of retirement to rebuild Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a securities firm, after it was decimated in the 2001 World Trade Center attacks.

Others at the packed cocktail hour in a 25,000-square-foot SoHo loft, including Princess Eugenie, Donald Baechler, Ryan McGinness and Hilary Rhoda, were happy to talk about what many see as this city's best holiday, especially after it was decimated last year by superstorm Sandy.

Predicting full spatial-resolution frames is a major source for computational complexity, since each frame is four times bigger than a low spatial-resolution frame (when it is decimated by a factor of two horizontally and vertically).

Now it is decimated, ranks dismally and is besieged with a host of problems.

Though farmers have been fighting against new RoundUp-resistant weeds for years and it's decimated monarch butterflies, it's only recently that health worries made the jump to humans, when the popular weed killer's active ingredient, glyphosate, was deemed to be "probably carcinogenic to humans" by the World Health Organization.

"They're philosophically antitax, and it's decimating the state".

"It's decimating the populations of some of Africa's iconic animals, including rhinoceros and elephants as well," said Grant Harris, the senior director for Africa on the National Security Council.