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Example sentences for "exterminate"

Lexicographically close words:
extenuation; exterior; exteriorly; exteriors; exteriour; exterminated; exterminates; exterminating; extermination; exterminator
  1. Fate hindered the plan of going to Bar; for they could not start immediately, especially since the prince had sent Pan Yan, at the head of a number of troops, as far as Zaslav, to exterminate the bands of peasants assembled there.

  2. We will exterminate them in those hiding-places like so many moles," said Zagloba, "and I beg your serene Highness to let me go out with the first sally.

  3. I wholly concurred in Ja's belief, but it seemed that it might be a difficult matter to exterminate the dominant race of Pellucidar.

  4. Had this been shown to the assembly, would it not have passed laws to protect the fur-bearers of the state, instead of bounty laws to exterminate the fur-bearer, and this act at the expense of the public?

  5. Now, I believe in a bounty on wildcats, hawks and weasel, sufficient to induce the poor man to spend the time necessary to exterminate these animals when an opportunity comes to him, for the dollar man will not take the trouble to do so.

  6. If a man does not exterminate his rivals they will exterminate him.

  7. So you'd like to exterminate Mrs. Brocklehurst?

  8. Jethro would never have been capable of being master of the state had he not foreseen the time when the railroads, tired of paying tribute, would turn and try to exterminate the boss.

  9. The really astonishing thing about Jethro's foresight (known to few only) was that he perceived clearly that the time would come when the railroads and other aggregations of capital would exterminate the boss, or at least subserviate him.

  10. New and improved varieties will inevitably supplant and exterminate the older, less improved and intermediate varieties; and thus species are rendered to a large extent defined and distinct objects.

  11. Consequently, each new variety or species, during the progress of its formation, will generally press hardest on its nearest kindred, and tend to exterminate them.

  12. I attempted also to show that there is a constant tendency in the forms which are increasing in number and diverging in character, to supplant and exterminate the less divergent, the less improved, and preceding forms.

  13. The ten plagues of Egypt are not renewed; the sun and moon do not stand still at mid-day, in order to give a commander time to exterminate a few runaways, already nearly destroyed by a shower of stones from the clouds.

  14. The judgments passed on him vary greatly: the official Chinese historiography rejects him entirely--naturally, for he tried to exterminate Confucianism, while every later historian was himself a Confucian.

  15. The conquerors of North China were now faced with a different question: if they were to remain nomads, they must either drive the peasants into the south, or make them into slave herdsmen, or exterminate them.

  16. This day was also memorable for the capture of Radetzky's palace, and in it of the wonderful sword with which he had threatened to exterminate the Milanese.

  17. Darwin relates that, in their eagerness to exterminate the red men, the Argentine troops have pursued them for three days without food.

  18. The following statements are from authorized documents, laws and decrees of the Papacy: "The papacy teaches all her adherents that it is a sacred duty to exterminate heresy.

  19. It was impossible to exterminate them wholly till that discovery which constitutes the power and sustains the civilisation of our race.

  20. The many are always assailing the few; sometimes they exterminate the few; but as soon as they have done so, a new few starts out of the many, and is harder to deal with than the old few.

  21. As to simple citizens, spare them not, and the better men they are, the more you ought to labor to exterminate them; for being men of honor they are the most dangerous of all to you.

  22. We answer that it is permitted and very useful among the French; that nothing has done more good to the English; and that it is time to exterminate barbarity.

  23. But "the Holy One, blessed be He, will display His force and exterminate them from the world.

  24. If I discover any treacherous tricks I shall be compelled to exterminate them utterly.

  25. Every denomination killed all it could of every other, and each Christian felt in duty bound to exterminate every other Christian who denied the smallest fraction of his creed.

  26. Every laudable effort to exterminate it should be encouraged.

  27. It was reported that the horsemen had been a detachment of State militia, that one of them had taken the trouble to explain to a wounded man that they had received orders from Governor Boggs to exterminate the Mormons.

  28. She was still shrieking some jargon about the United States being founded on the Word of God, and the divine right to exterminate all Mormons, when he, walking fast, joined Susannah.

  29. Joseph Duncan said if the people would elect him he would exterminate the Mormons, take away their charter.

  30. One of them says: 'If you will elect me to the gubernatorial chair I will take away the charter of your city and exterminate the Methodists.

  31. Let such men reside in thy dominions as advance the interests of others and do them good, but not such as exterminate others.

  32. In the Treta age I shall take birth as Rama in the race of Bhrigu, and exterminate the Kshatriyas who will become proud of their strength and possessions.

  33. They, however, that do exterminate them have always to live in fear in consequence of that act.

  34. An insignificant foe, when he becomes powerful, may exterminate a king.

  35. He should exterminate robbers everywhere in his kingdom and never pardon any one from caprice.

  36. Satyavat said, 'If thou dost not succeed in making honest men of those rogues and in saving them by means unconnected with slaughter, do thou then exterminate them by performing some sacrifice.

  37. Persons of the lowest order, desiring to exterminate the evil passions (of lust and wrath, etc.

  38. They that seek to exterminate a foe are sometimes exterminated themselves in course of their efforts.

  39. If, on the other hand, he be engaged, he may exterminate all.

  40. Those kings that do not exterminate them outright have no fear of extermination to themselves.

  41. King Saul thought to destroy godly David, to exterminate his root and branch and blot out his name as if he had been a rebellious, accursed man.

  42. He boasts of himself and imparts to men a spirit of daring in his purpose to suppress and exterminate Christian doctrine.

  43. The life of Syracuse being rekindled by this influx of citizens from all quarters, Timoleon determined to set free the other cities also, and to exterminate the despots in Sicily.

  44. This exasperated the Kurds, who decided to exterminate them.

  45. The massacres at Mardin and Gemerek resulted in leaving the survivors in those once populous villages in a condition that threatened to exterminate them by starvation.

  46. These are the kind of men whom for more than a thousand years the Saracens and Turks have been trying to exterminate as dogs of Christians.

  47. The evident intention of the Sultan is to utterly destroy and exterminate the Christian people in Armenia.

  48. I bear Caesar's commission, and I am to exterminate ill vagabonds that trouble the dwellers in the oasis, or travellers in the desert.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exterminate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.