Sample Sentences fordecimate (auto-selected)
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Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness.† (source)
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From my spot, I surveyed the scenery and noticed few signs of the war that had decimated our lives.† (source)
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There had never been much family to begin with and the years had decimated the rest.† (source)
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Our militaries had been decimated, but there were still functional units on every continent.† (source)
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Decimated but stubborn, they were among those who chose a fugitive life rather than Oklahoma.† (source)
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He'd have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body.† (source)
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An American air strike ended Zarqawi's life in June 2006, and by the end of the decade al-Qaeda in Iraq had been decimated.† (source)
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It feels more designed to keep us in lockdown than to decimate 13.† (source)
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Disrupt government services, cut off supply lines, transportation, eliminate communications, and then confine civilians indoors before decimating the industrial base, in this case by cutting off power.† (source)
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First of all, if I was expected to come to Yamacraw Island to preside over the intellectual decimation of forty kids, you selected the wrong boy.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Especially disturbing to the naval contingent were reports from down below that Italian troops now were shot quite casually for disciplinary reasons, and that the Italian generals, like their French counterparts, were executing men in decimations for crimes they had not: committed.† (source)
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The eighty thousand original FORCE troops were ground up, reinforced with a hundred thousand more, and were still being decimated when the call went out for two hundred thousand more.† (source)
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When the remaining forces finally reach the foot of Kolvir, he'll decimate them there.† (source)
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He did not like this news; he had counted on the brothers Baratheon decimating each other in bloody battle.† (source)
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Eventually, of course, after their Galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realized that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own Galaxy—now positively identified as the source of the offending remark.† (source)
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Augustus was hoping for a rush, confident that with the two of them shooting they could decimate the Indians to such an extent that the survivors might leave.† (source)
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