How to Use exterminate in a Sentence

exterminate

verb

• 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
• To play it safe, fire up your hair dryer to exterminate potential intruders.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 18 July 2024
• Over time, beekeepers have kept hives that are more docile and exterminated bees that show aggressive tendencies in an effort to keep the majority of wild bees calm.
  — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024