The garrison had been reduced to a very ragged and pitiable condition.

The orks, it is true, sometimes appear to have been reduced to a condition very similar, though there remains actually a profound difference.

Lack of sleep had reduced Baxter to a condition where the presence and chatter of the house party were insupportable.

"You'd reduce our marriage to a condition that has to be met?"

The fire should be extinguished, or reduced to a condition where it could not recur, within 8 to 10 minutes from ignition.

The earthquake of 1842, followed by the hurricane of 1843, reduced it to so ruinous a condition that an entirely new building was planned.

His people have been reduced to a condition in which they no longer have political reflexes.

The "messenger of the desert" reduced his country to a far worse condition than he found it in.

On the books, Brazil has a law against "reducing a person to a condition analogous to slavery."

He has been "reduced to a skeletal condition," the group said.