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Example sentences for "exterminated"

Lexicographically close words:
exterior; exteriorly; exteriors; exteriour; exterminate; exterminates; exterminating; extermination; exterminator; externa
  1. They came from the western division, and as the rhino had been nearly exterminated in the mountain ranges west and northwest of Tamaloƫ, the hunters were going farther east.

  2. Possibly the fish had been practically exterminated by the tuba poisoning of former years.

  3. He touches on the ground of expediency, showing, that, without the interference of government, the Indian race must be gradually exterminated by the systematic oppression of the Spaniards.

  4. The old savage race who held the islands before the Celts appeared, were partly exterminated and partly absorbed by the new-comers.

  5. We made war on his grandson Cetewayo, and incurred, on our first meeting with the formidable Zulu army, the disaster of Isandula, where a whole British battalion and 1000 native auxiliaries were exterminated to the last man.

  6. Perhaps he deserves little praise on this score, for both the Lancastrians and the partisans of Warwick had been practically exterminated by the slaughters of 1471.

  7. These are best exterminated by the use of a trap or some preparation such as "Rough on Rats".

  8. Moths or carpet beetles can be exterminated by the use of kerosene.

  9. The growing influence of the Chinese was further promoted by the fact that many Toba families were exterminated in the revolts of the tribal chieftains, and others were wiped out in the many battles.

  10. New cliques formed before long and were exterminated in turn.

  11. This appalling and destructive weapon has culminated in these times in the famous mitrailleuses of Napoleon III, at Woerth and Sedan, which, however, certainly neither exterminated the Prussians nor added glory to the French empire.

  12. In South Africa, elephants and all other large game are being steadily exterminated within the several colonies.

  13. It measured as much as from twenty-eight to thirty-five feet in length, and was soon nearly exterminated by Behring's party and other voyagers who visited the island.

  14. In a short but decisive campaign Agricola so severely chastised them that his biographer says that he almost literally exterminated them.

  15. How is it that such peculiarly tropical groups were not exterminated by the cold of the glacial period, or if able to stand the cold, that they did not spread into temperate regions on the retreat of the ice?

  16. The successful invaders of a country, even in the most cruel times, never exterminated the people they conquered; at the least, the young women were spared.

  17. These cannibals had almost exterminated the Iroquois, for they were of immense size and had made themselves almost invincible by rolling daily in the sand until their flesh was like stone.

  18. There is good reason for this fear, because man has completely exterminated some species and so reduced the numbers of others that careful protection will be needed to save them.

  19. For many years the trapping of these little animals was an important industry, until at last they were practically exterminated in every stream throughout the western half of the country.

  20. In a few short years we have almost exterminated the Indian.

  21. They stated that in the Chicago region the racer had been exterminated by the advance of agriculture except in two extensive sand dune areas.

  22. The Priests of Brahma, professing a dark and bloody creed, brutalized by Superstition, united together against Buddhism, and with the aid of Despotism, exterminated its followers.

  23. In the beginning of the spring, the Turkish vanguard swept the towns and villages as far as the gates of Constantinople: submission was spared and protected; whatever presumed to resist was exterminated with fire and sword.

  24. What shalt thou gain, O son of Kunti, by having thus exterminated thy race?

  25. If O king, persons of wicked behaviour do ever win prosperity, they do not enjoy it long, O son, and are seen to be exterminated by the root.

  26. If the king did not protect, everything would be exterminated prematurely, and every part of the country would be overrun by robbers, and everybody would fall into terrible hell.

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

  28. How, O bull of the Yadus, was the Kshatriya order exterminated by the illustrious and high-souled Rama, and how did it again grow?

  29. For this reason, in dealing with robbers, it is necessary that they should not be exterminated outright.

  30. Yudhishthira said,--'I have great doubts in what thou sayest about Rama's having thrice seven times exterminated the Kshatriyas in days of old.

  31. In wrath thou hadst, in battle, exterminated thrice seven times the Kshatriyas who had trampled virtue and authority under their feet.

  32. For what reason was the Kshatriya order thus exterminated in days of yore by Rama, the high-souled descendant of Bhrigu, O tiger among the Yadus?

  33. At a subsequent date they were nearly exterminated by the Moravians, and after the year 827 this once powerful people disappear from history.

  34. We have killed your men, we have ravished your women, we have exterminated your brats; will you tell me what else we can do to make your Government fight?

  35. Bonaparte exterminated women and old men on the boulevard, but he did not lie.

  36. Unfit varieties are exterminated by natural selection, and room is thus left for varieties which are fit to perpetuate themselves and to increase in efficiency.

  37. Sheep-raising was at an early date safer in England than on the Continent, because wolves were earlier exterminated there.

  38. To the arts of the politician he added the valor of the warrior, and exterminated the Saracens who invaded Italy.

  39. Scott entered the Kikapoo villages, on the Wabash, and taking the Indians by surprise, exterminated their villages, killed and took many prisoners.

  40. But when he returned to Spain he left soldiers, who brutally maltreated them, until the natives rose in revolt and exterminated every white man.

  41. They were so completely exterminated that it is doubtful if the blood of their race was even remotely preserved in the mixed classes who followed African and Chinese introduction.


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