Sentence Examples:
Well, look out; we are going to pick off and decimate your men every day.
The colonies that remain are in a sadly decimated condition.
The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged them.
The ministers were decimated until few were left.
No, the Browns would not yield until they were decimated.
The wailing of Gilles's decimated flock reaches his ears.
They decimate the population, in order that they may be feared.
The woodland decimated, and the devastation was going on in every direction.
Unless they come out and attack us we can decimate 'em.
These prisoners he had punished, decimating them by lot and hanging every tenth man.
The original force, numbering seven hundred, had been decimated.
Her army is decimated, but the last decimals fight on.
I saw all my superior officers killed, and the whole regiment decimated.
A lion had only to come to decimate the people.
It is one that already has in our large towns and cities decimated Protestant Churches.
You wish to shed royal blood and to decimate the nobility of the kingdom, do you?
Their well-directed shooting decimated the English artillery to a terrible degree.
Even the few names of decimated cities which survived, designated towns on new sites.
Both towns are rapidly becoming decimated.
Both ships were badly riddled by shot, and their crews were decimated.
All the works are too numerous, even to be decimated.
By night as well as by day we shall be decimated.
Famine decimated them, yet they starved and fought.
A plague broke out in the city, which decimated the army of the senate.
The Royal Greens also showed their numbers greatly decimated.
To decimate the guilty would have been to commit a frightful massacre.
He drew a pistol from his belt, and said, "I shall decimate you."
Where was all his legacy of knowledge when Norfolk was decimated?
She saw her faithful friends fall around her wasted by hunger or decimated by sickness.
It was only to face a decimating fire.
Decimated as they were, enough of the enemy got through.
Quick as lightning he passes; and the dancers are decimated.
It was a difficult bit; and the column was decimated before it had passed.
Rather than alter its track, the column was decimated a second time.
Fevers decimated many regiments at Harper's Ferry.
A decimated enemy in the first flush of annoyance can be dangerous.
Our population will be decimated, our country laid waste, and the end will be slavery.
They found Santa Anna there, and the Mexican President decimated the party.
In 1859, civil war decimated the fortress and the town.
Both armies were willing to rest and have their decimated ranks filled with fresh troops.
Jehovah has ended his plaguing of the Egyptians, after more than decimating them.
Despite all these precautions, the animals of the caravan were decimated by death.
In 1660 a similar epidemic decimated the world.
I then entered this city, and it was decimated.
I entered this town, and it too was decimated.
The moist heat and malaria decimated the exiles.
By then the oaks had been decimated.
In 1847 O'Connell died, and a terrible famine swept over the land decimating the people.
She heard to what extent battalions were decimated.
It takes but a few feet of water to decimate a field.
This is true, or the juvenile population of these closes would be decimated.
In order to be just they ought to have decimated themselves.
Our best battalions, decimated, abandoned to themselves, were but wrecks.
On the eve of June the revolutionary army was intact; on the 21st May it was decimated.
You meant to let the royal blood, and to decimate the nobility of France.
Their forces were being decimated by the climate and the hardships.
These are the dreaded wild dogs which decimate the game in the jungle.
These heroes were decimated by the bullet, sickness, or famine.
A month later the Third Grenadiers was decimated until only forty men were left.
What if whole villages were decimated by famine?
The ranks of the Will of the People were being rapidly decimated.
The senate, the representative of legal power, he despised and decimated.
The people who survived the massacre were decimated by an epidemic in the following year.
The first wave of Russians entered the forest, was decimated, and retreated.
Time after time the enemy across the river were decimated by the terrible fire.
They decimated that tenth once more, because it appeared too many to save.
The Anglo-American newspaper fraternity was already a rather decimated body.
She had now to confront and solve the insistent problem of manning her decimated armies.
Armies are "decimated," and the term is taken to be synonymous with defeat.
His death was followed by the surrender of the decimated band.
Consumption is decimating them fast.
As it was, those who left the plantation were decimated by disease and want.
The two armies were weary and more than decimated.
Its accumulations of wealth were exhausted; its manhood was decimated.
The word decimate is now used very loosely, as meaning to cut up.
The ranks were decimated indeed, and the other class was rejoicing.
They decimated the companions of my relation Alfred, and put him to death.
He introduced into that assembly, decimated during the civil wars, three hundred knights.
The old bands were decimated.
His men were decimated by disease and starvation.
His crew was decimated and his ship no longer sea-worthy.
The Turks poured up the reverse side of the ridge, where our Anzac guns decimated them.
Literature fared the same as an army which has been decimated.
"I've bagged all their scouts, sir, and we can decimate the whole regiment."
This decimated the islands as much, or even more, than his wars.
Another company was decimated, and fortunately the colonel was among the casualties.
The Zeros, already decimated, had hung around just out of range.
We have seen that children under five are decimated yearly in the Strand.
Are they not decimated by enemies?
For the third time in a few years the young men of the country had been decimated.
The result was that the town was nearly decimated.
They now met the infantry fire which decimated their ranks still more rapidly.
I do know that regiments have been so decimated that they were consolidated.
During several days the steel of the executioner thus decimated the unhappy prisoners.
Decimated by this cruel war, the battalion was reduced to about three hundred men.
They have since been sadly decimated!
The troops were completely decimated.
Tomorrow night may find us decimated and without heart for the finish.
Their decimated ranks could not withstand the charge of two armies.