Example Sentences

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Within about 50 years, the crocodiles had been completely exterminated.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

Humans exterminated the passenger pigeon, the great auk and the Carolina parakeet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Sheinbaum evoked the Holocaust, saying “many of my relatives ... were exterminated in concentration camps.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025

Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate helped bring Nazi war criminals to justice, and documented the deportations and deaths of 80,000 Jews from France exterminated in the Holocaust.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2023

“No, Scout, those ragged ignorant people fought until they were nearly exterminated to maintain something that these days seems to be the sole privilege of artists and musicians.”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee