How to Use eradicate in a Sentence

eradicate

verb
  • The disease has now been completely eradicated.
  • His ambition is to eradicate poverty in his community.
  • To eradicate it at the source, remove the dirt around it.
    Michele Petry, House Beautiful, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The pigs pose a threat to native wildlife and may prove tough to eradicate.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
  • In an attempt to eradicate AI, both sides see and feel the toll of war.
    WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Smallpox has been eradicated from the face of the Earth.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Keep those sink drains free of food particles and eradicate all the gross residue in and around the drain.
    Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The owner is letting the state eradicate the nest and remove the tree.
    Nicholas K. Geranios, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The increase of moisture still won't be enough to eradicate decades of drought.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Much of the info available on this plant is on how to eradicate it from your lawn, but to me that’s crazy.
    Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 6 July 2017
  • What are the chances that Scheifele’s four-gamer will eradicate such predatory hits from the game?
    BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
  • Israel has vowed to secure the return of hostages and to eradicate Hamas.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The struggle to eradicate PFAS from the environment has ramped up in the past few years.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2023
  • In years way past, this would be my call to write a nasty column about the need to eradicate the yellow plague.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2022
  • But in some cases, the push to eradicate the Guinea worm helped foster peace.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The goal is to eradicate spoofed numbers from the telephone system.
    Brooke Crothers, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
  • The disease was thought to have been eradicated by around 2000.
    oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Its sweep is such that the lines between speech and song are eradicated.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • Shine a light on it — acknowledge it — and eradicate it in your own heart.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 23 Oct. 2017
  • That said, Apple will eradicate the notch in the future.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Is there a sense of catharsis or healing that comes for him as he’s proven right about the anthrax threat and works to eradicate it?
    Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Letting the grass get to 3 or 4 inches can serve as a control, but won’t eradicate clover.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2021
  • The idea was to eradicate any indication that the trust did any business in New York, a high-tax state.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
  • The global effort to eradicate polio — wipe it from the face of the earth — has been underway since 1988.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Samoa might seem like a simple place to eradicate a disease.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 7 July 2020
  • There's no better way to eradicate the inevitable mess than with a sleek and lightweight dust-buster.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But the island had to build hospitals and schools, and eradicate poverty.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Gable said the vaccine is safe and her bill is designed to help eradicate cervical cancer in the state.
    Greg Bishop, Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Democrats want to appropriate enough money from the state general fund to eradicate the waiting list.
    Madeline Armstrong | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Attempting to completely eradicate diseases that have already moved from animals to humans, however, is a waste of time and resources.
    Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024

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