Sentence examples for were being decimated from inspiring English sources

It was the start of the hardline Margaret Thatcher years, and places – up north, especially – were being decimated.

Councils said they were "utterly dismayed" as this was the second year they were being "decimated".

She also warned that refuges were being "decimated" by local authority funding cuts.

Parties to cover bad (or vague) news aren't a new thing for MySpace – they threw one earlier this year in Europe right as European operations were being decimated.

Back home, hours were being cut back, branches were being closed, budgets were being decimated.

The squadron was being decimated.

"Owner-drivers are being decimated now.

Wild great ape populations are being decimated by diseases.

She said: "The women's refuge sector is being decimated.

Rhino populations across the southern African continent are being decimated by poaching.

The American working class — those without a college degree — is being decimated, economically and socially.