Sentence examples for quickly decimated from inspiring English sources

These and subsequent sailors quickly decimated the dodo population as an easy source of fresh meat for their voyages.

Hunting and deforestation quickly decimated the species.

Many of the first settlers were quickly decimated by disease and hostile natives.

One model proposes that genetic diversity was lost in two distinct bottlenecks, where groups of hundreds or thousands of migrating people were quickly decimated by disease, starvation, warfare, or some other cause, dramatically reducing the number of adults who bore children that survived.

On the night of October 28, the ambush by the two Chinese divisions quickly decimated the advancing ROK regiments at the east of Onjong, and the Chinese roadblocks in the rear areas forced the South Korean soldiers to abandon all vehicles and artillery in order to escape.

He's unsuccessful with the Yeti — but quickly decimates a competitor's cooler.

If competition ever creates a significant shift to Internet-based phone service, it could quickly decimate the already precarious economics of the local phone business.

A stroke quickly decimates a small area of the brain, but surrounding brain tissue continues to die over several weeks.

Not only has the cruel trade destroyed the beautiful creature in the video, it is very quickly decimating the entire rhino species.

There is no doubt that drone attacks have worked locally (in Afghanistan, Pakistan's FATA region, and Yemen) to quickly decimate al-Qaeda's ranks.

And wildlife crime is quickly decimating iconic species, whose disappearance -- a looming and real risk -- would strike to the core for all the people of the world.