Can you put the word decimate in a sentence?

Decimate - to destroy or reduce by one tenth, which means 10% destroyed, but 90% remains. This word is often used incorrectly in place of the word devastate.

Sentence: Although a disaster decimated the city's homes, 90% of the homes remained intact.

A common incorrect sentence: Our team decimated the opponents, so we won the championship. (Please note that in this sentence, nothing was actually destroyed or reduced, it was only a win/loss situation. Please note that incorrect colloquial use does NOT make the incorrect usage correct.)

Please note that common usage tends to use this word incorrectly. A common incorrect use of the word implies: to destroy much of; kill a large part of.
Sentence: War had decimated the tribe.

In this sentence, if the war had destroyed more than 10% of the tribe, the word "devastated" should have been used. Such use of decimate is incorrect and should be avoided.