Sentences with 'decimated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word decimated and other words derived from it.
• « The most famous of these victories was the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, in which a smaller English force decimated the elite French cavalry through the effective use of longbows, a weapon that could transform an English peasant into something more than a mounted French cavalryman. »
• « Russia did indeed intervene to crush rebellions over the course of the next decades, most notably in 1848 when it decimated the Hungarian Revolution and handed Hungary back to the Austrians. »
• « One of the ways to resuscitate a lake decimated by acid rain (being done in the United States, for example) is to bring in fish from elsewhere to restimulate the life chain. More often than not, the effort proves fruitless: the fish must tolerate not only high levels of acid but also heavy concentrations of aluminium from the surrounding soil, also a product of acid rain. »