decimate

Example Sentences

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The talks are the latest diplomatic bid to halt the fighting which has killed hundreds of thousands, forced millions to flee and decimated much of eastern and southern Ukraine.

From Barron's

“It’s bad enough our community was decimated by a fire Edison started,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

Rhett isn’t alone in thinking AI could potentially “decimate” Hollywood and take away jobs.

From Los Angeles Times

But perhaps its most heartbreaking application was when Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band played at the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival since Hurricane Katrina decimated the city and the region.

From Salon

Cuba has been going through its worst crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union, primarily because of decades of economic mismanagement, made worse by the Covid epidemic, which decimated its tourism industry.

From The Wall Street Journal