How to Use decimated in a Sentence

decimated

adjective

• The video shows officers struggling to free the suspect from the decimated car as smoke blows out of the engine bay.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 29 June 2023
• Since then, the sides have fought a grinding war for incremental gains around the decimated city of Bakhmut and elsewhere.
  — Samuel Granados, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• For the fifth and final season, the production team needed to build a decimated version of Hawkins.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
• Those from decimated kibbutzim in southern Israel don’t have homes to return to.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• In Jabaliya, a city north of Gaza City, areas once green were turned to dust and dirt around decimated structures.
  — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
• Where Iran could turn to rebuild its decimated air defenses, when the smoke from this war finally clears, is anyone’s guess.
  — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
• What’s good about this is up until now, because Cleveland police are so decimated, there was no pushback on the Kia.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
• But brief blasts of rain could cause flash flooding that would loosen soil and debris on charred hillsides, sending it tumbling toward decimated neighborhoods.
  — Karina Tsui, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
• First responders turned off the gas line servicing the decimated property.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 3 May 2024
• Those fees were agreed to as part of a scheduling deal between the decimated Pac-12 and the Mountain West.
  — Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2024
• Police cars, concrete barriers, and handwritten signs mark the outline of the decimated areas.
  — Jack Kiyonaga, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2023
• Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have filed through the area, many of them returning decimated homes in the north, by foot, car and in some cases, by donkeys.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025
• And this was arguably the Heat’s worst loss of the season, considering the decimated competition.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• The Braves are the Braves — division winners for six consecutive seasons — but this week presented a chance to beat a decimated team.
  — Matt Gelb, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
• Yurtseven debut The Warriors’ roster is so decimated that the team asked a G-League center to play the same day he was signed.
  — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
• Deadly wildfires in the Los Angeles area have sent tens of thousands scrambling for safety and decimated neighborhoods.
  — Adrian Lam, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
• The arrival of the elevated roadway sparked white flight and decimated business for the theater, which eventually opened to Black patrons.
  — Holly Haber, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
• Here in Bee Cave, posters of our young readers are coming down from the wall, prizes are being picked up and shelves are refilling with books after looking decimated for the past several weeks.
  — Barbara D. Hathaway, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
• All of West Maui will be open, except for Lahaina Town, the most decimated area, which will remain off-limits until further notice.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Nov. 2023
• Israeli officials have asked the military to draw up an evacuation plan, but many question where there is left for people to go in the decimated Palestinian enclave.
  — NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
• While other families flee, Candace moves into her office, continues to work, and starts an anonymous photography blog of the decimated city.
  — Literary Hub, 16 July 2024
• Theatrical revenue still deeply lags that of 2019, before the pandemic decimated moviegoing habits.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
• Rebuilding a decimated childhood The disaster has upended the daily lives of thousands of children.
  — Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
• But as Fetterman showed us on a drive, other parts of Pennsylvania's Rust Belt remain decimated.
  — CBS News, 24 Jan. 2021
• By the afternoon, as the group drove through neighborhoods not far from Lahaina's iconic and decimated Front Street, her car was completely empty.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• In an era of highly limited immigration — with fewer border crossings and a decimated refugee program — the district is also enrolling fewer new arrivals.
  — Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 26 Oct. 2025
• In Rafah, in southern Gaza near the border with Egypt, the family escaped the misery of having to live in a tent, where camps stretch for miles and spill into empty or decimated fields, streets and lots.
  — Ariana Torrey, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
• Patrick Somerville Deep in the peak of a variant spike in the pandemic, Max dropped its best original offering to date, a timely examination of the need for hope in a decimated world.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2021
• Coverage from the region included imagery of a decimated Harlem Tap Room, a historic bar on the city's north side that has been at the same location for roughly 80 years.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 16 May 2025
• Democratic lawmakers have called for Biden to prioritize the safety of Palestinians amid the conflict, which has killed thousands and decimated Gaza.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024