Sentence examples for that was decimated from inspiring English sources

In Europe, a continent that was decimated by centuries of religious wars, this is all very strange.

"You could have one that has had zero injuries, then you could have a club that was decimated," Pellman said.

It also indulges in a little literary excavation, and functions as a window on the mid-1980s New York gay community that was decimated by the Aids epidemic.

This will be the largest effort to restore the once-plentiful scallop population that was decimated by algae blooms in the mid-1980's.

The exhibition chronicles the literary remains of the once vibrant cultural life that was decimated in the years that followed that departure for Poland.

Pig farming is still illegal, but here and there smaller-scale breeders say they are now more brazenly rebuilding a process that was decimated in 2009.

That day he led 13 of his men in taking out a battery of German gunners that was decimating Allied troops in Carentan, France, shortly after D-Day.

Bond and the musician Kenny Mellman created the act in San Francisco in 1993, as a steely rejoinder to the plague that was decimating the city.

In 1987 he did an internship in Canada, where he heard about a mysterious disease that was decimating gay men in the West.

Dr. Davis finished his doctorate at Mississippi State in 1965 and joined the agriculture department in a project to find corn varieties resistant to the southwestern corn borer — a moth, like the fall armyworm, that was decimating the Mississippi crop.

When they sat down in the shared gallery space of PS122 in May 1991, they wanted to get people talking about the illness that was decimating their professional and social network, in the face of public indifference and private shame.