EXTERMINATE in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for EXTERMINATE, such as:

1. There men exterminated each other.
2. They mutually exterminated one another.
3. They are forcing us to exterminate them.
4. Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination.
5. Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXTERMINATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
exterminate
 v.  eliminate; eradicate; kill on a large scale; kill man
Classic Sentence:
1  I scarcely ever knew a city that did not desire the destruction of a neighbouring city, nor a family that did not wish to exterminate some other family.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XX
2  I did not think that I had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
3  They are forcing us to exterminate them.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVI
4  He had lost in the fierce battle of greed, and so was doomed to be exterminated; and all society was busied to see that he did not escape the sentence.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
5  They mutually exterminated one another.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  In old days he saw justice in bloodshed and with his conscience at peace exterminated those he thought proper.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VII
7  There men exterminated each other.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
8  It may be assumed, however, as most certain, that a corrupted city living under a prince can never recover its freedom, even were the prince and all his line to be exterminated.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII.
9  He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
10  Firstly, by exterminating the families of those lords whom he had despoiled, so as to take away that pretext from the Pope.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQ...
11  We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be the exterminators of the last.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
12  The Prussian cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, exterminates.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
13  Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
Example Sentence:
1  Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe.