Example Sentences

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Extracted teeth provided by dentists are good samples.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2022

Extracted from frosty craters, the ice could be used for manufacturing rocket propellant, fuel cells and radiation shielding—not to mention for producing potable water.

From Scientific American • Jul. 10, 2019

Extracted from raw data, the information is being turned into knowledge about people and things: what we do, what we want, and who we are.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2018

Extracted by strip mining or creating subsurface mines, oil shale can be burned directly like coal or baked in the presence of hydrogen to extract liquid petroleum.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018

As pebbles to the hollow polypus 520 Extracted from his stony bed, adhere, So he, the rough rocks clasping, stripp’d his hands Raw, and the billows now whelm’d him again.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William