How to Use exterminate in a Sentence

exterminate

verb
Definition of exterminatenext
Synonyms for exterminatenext
  • We made arrangements to have the termites exterminated.
  • The invaders nearly exterminated the native people.
  • Use a liquid bait placed next to the colony to exterminate the ants.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Use a liquid bait placed next to the colony to exterminate the ants.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2018
  • They should be exterminated from the face of the earth.
    — Washington Post, 23 July 2019
  • The June Bug is exterminated and left out of the film, and sorely missed.
    — Samuel Maude, ELLE, 11 Aug. 2023
  • There is a rash of screams too, but that noise is short-lived, soon exterminated by the gun fire.
    — Pam Houston, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The most primal end to this line of thinking was that threats to the Volk had to be exterminated.
    — Seth Mnookin, New York Times, 18 June 2018
  • The hunt for the killer soon puts him face-to-face with a humanoid beast that will stop at nothing to exterminate the one witness to the crime.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2019
  • This is a loser monster that needs to be exterminated off the face of the earth!
    — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 5 June 2017
  • Then there are the Ultron bots, which aren’t set out to exterminate the human race.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 11 May 2022
  • More than half of the people exterminated by the Nazis were from Poland.
    — NBC News, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Haman then planned to exterminate all the Jews in Persia.
    — CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
  • With the feisty insect exterminated, the focus was back to the most in-demand celebrity of the year.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • Then, the rats must be trapped and exterminated, and the mites killed with pesticide.
    — CBS News, 13 June 2017
  • There is a big chunk of the Muslim world that would like to exterminate the Jewish state beginning with, of course, Iran.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 22 May 2021
  • The Harkonnens are ready to exterminate them, whereas the Atreidae want to make common cause with the Fremen and help them.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Some of them fear that efforts to exterminate the incurable will lead, inevitably, to assaults on the cured.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The idea would be to exterminate tens of thousands of invasive house mice that have taken over the islands.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019
  • With the Paris Olympics less than a year away, French authorities want to make sure the bedbugs don't bite during the games and have started a drive to exterminate the pests.
    — Fox News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The screen villain’s mad impulse to exterminate half the universe?
    — Tom Russo, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • That's a good strategy, because pathogens that don't exterminate their host species are able to live longer and spread more widely.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 17 May 2018
  • Mao thought sparrows were a pest, exterminated them, and caused a famine that killed millions of Chinese.
    — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Barely worth mentioning but a hostile alien race known as the Scryve want to exterminate us.
    — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 11 June 2018
  • More Mexican wolves are in the wild now than at any time since they were nearly exterminated decades ago.
    — Washington Post, 18 June 2019
  • At the start people believed this was a new strategy to exterminate them.
    — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • Since ancient times, Amalek has served as Jewish shorthand for a foe that seeks to exterminate the Jewish people.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The recordings, carried out in 1957, have Eichmann hailing his part in the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish people.
    — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 6 July 2022
  • The aim is to exterminate the rats as quickly as possible to keep the problem from spreading in a neighborhood and save on the expense of future visits.
    — Eugene Register-Guard, OregonLive.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Those guys are just sitting there, watching TV, and [Barry and Taylor] just exterminate them.
    — Pete Keeley, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2018

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