decimate

How To Use decimate In A Sentence

• Certainly observant Jews remember the crusaders as evil butchers, who on their way to Jerusalem, slaughtered and massacred many thousands of Jews and decimated entire Jewish communities such as Speyer, Worms and Mayencea and of course, when they arrived in Jerusalem, put the holy Jews of the city to the sword. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• Consequently, Muir believes, biotech fish could quickly decimate a fish population by their increased ability to produce damaged young.
• Extensive wetlands in Sonora have been decimated by irrigated agriculture and urbanization.
• In reality, the effects of privatisation and subcontracting in community care has decimated the true potential of people that need support in the community.
• Most irritating were the German rocket launchers, which miraculously decimate infantry and armour alike with impunity.
• Among the creatures expected to blossom as a result would be the tiny water vole, whose populations were decimated by the introduction of the mink from North America.
• Cheap imports decimated the British cycle industry.
• The lazaret was opened during the plague outbreaks that decimated Venice, as well as much of Europe, throughout the 15th and 16th centuries A.D. Low Water Again Plagues Venice: Acqua Bassa Redux
• Many of the island's great stands of trees have been felled, and Indonesian loggers continue to decimate an area half the size of Switzerland each year.
• The plague decimated the working population of Europe, and this left large tracts of land vacant.