had decimated
- past perfect of decimate.
Example Sentences
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Shoppers could hardly find eggs in stores early last year, a period when producers said avian flu had decimated the hen population.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Phillips, former host of ITV breakfast show GMTV, said dementia had "decimated" her family after her mother, father and uncle also had the disease.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023
By January 1804, through successful guerrilla tactics, Black revolutionaries had decimated the French army, already suffering an outbreak of yellow fever, to create the Haitian nation.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
“From the 1950s until we took it over in 2017, decades of hunting had decimated wildlife populations in Sapi Reserve. We are rewilding and restoring the wild back to what it once was.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
From my spot, I surveyed the scenery and noticed few signs of the war that had decimated our lives.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
