Decimation in a sentence

He coined the terms the First Decimation of 844, which he saw as the removal of public dues on a tenth of all bookland, and the Second Decimation of 854, the donation of a tenth of "the private domain of the royal house" to the churches.

Jewish history in Libya dates back nearly 3,000 years, but modern events have led to persecution and the community’s decimation.

Localised extinctions or population strains have been caused by the decimation of eucalypt forests for agriculture, mines and human settlement.

Over the years, the franchise has introduced a host of cataclysmic viruses, terrorist threats, bio-mutated monsters, and the complete decimation of multiple major cities.

The decimation of this vibrant spice capital didn’t start last month.

A campaign against the Houthis may not be as quick or spectacular as the decimation of Hezbollah.

Another villager voiced concerns over the ecological damage wrought by HS2, including the decimation of woods and streams, resulting in flooded gardens and farmers counting their losses.

She added: “We have seen the decimation that has taken place.

The decimation of mangrove forests is not unique to Port Coral.

The decimation of the Northumberland and Durham coalfield since then is there to be seen.

The madness that is net zero, is leading to the decimation of one of main manufacturing industries, car making, along with others we are simply making ourselves poorer by providing the kind of leadership no one else is interested in following.

The man gets a job as a server at an illustrious hotel to gain access to mob boss Queenie and her right hand Rana, who are responsible for the decimation of his village and his mothers death.

By then, dredging and pumping and draining of the sloughs — the technical term for the shallow, slow-moving water under the grasses — and species decimation was well underway.

Have the males submit to decimation.

The combination of record-high debt levels, the decimation of production capacity by lockdown, major Reserve Banks who are resolute to manufacture inflation, and the international currency war, means we have entered a similar period of stagflation.

Though the government has consistently mouthed a decimation and technical defeat of the insurgents, contemporary fatalities and massacres have benumbed the claim.

Total decimation and the complete undoing of all existence?

We had hoped reversing the decimation of the rule was more important at this stage of our recovery than any other consideration.

While Carol might have spent a sprinkling amount of time on Earth during that half decade (more on that later), it seemed like she was keeping busy with protecting other areas of the universe post-Decimation.

But the Saudis have driven the Houthis far more completely into Iranian arms than they had been prior to the decimation of their country, and America's initial support for the Yemen war was far less enthusiastic than it ultimately became under Trump.