decimation

How To Use decimation In A Sentence

• The Romans even figured out how to deter cowardice that causes the death of others with the technique called decimation: If a legion lost a battle and there was suspicion of cowardice, 10 percent of the soldiers and commanders - usually chosen at random - were put to death. NYT > Home Page
• Australia's winter crops, slashed by half in 2002, face decimation once again.
• Her gravitation towards Italy and Italian culture functions as a kind replacement for the personal and cultural decimation she has witnessed as the daughter and niece of Holocaust victims.
• This amounted to slightly more than one in every 10 tenurable positions in English — literally a decimation. Other Stuff Wednesday « Gerry Canavan
• What I'm saying here is that we need to do something akin to a strategic decimation for mutineers.
• The St. Petersburg Times reported an absolute "decimation" of the game fish population with recent record-breaking cold temperatures. Frigid Florida Waters Decimating Fish and Turtles
• There was no real reason for their tragedy, except starvation and overcrowding and the hunt for scapegoats - ancient and immutable causes for tribal decimation.
• Events abroad completed the party's decimation.
• In the United States we have watched the long term decimation of the manufacturing sector and a transition to a "service" economy. Economic Globalization and Speculation Coming Home to Roost
• This produced numerous field executions and the frequent use of decimation against undisciplined units.