exterminating
- present participle of exterminate.
Example Sentences
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Liias — who is a self-proclaimed pollinator champion — recently sponsored Senate Bill 5972 to restrict neonicotinoids, or a particularly harmful class of pesticides that kill indiscriminately, exterminating not only pests but also countless pollinators.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
"The Daleks are essentially the Nazis transformed into robots with a stiff-armed salute and insistence on exterminating the human race and all other races," said Turner.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2023
“Why did he do that? Because the culture was exterminating too. He just went along with what the outer world was telling him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Managers could consider adding artificial salt licks to places that lack them, for example, or exterminating goats in areas where they were introduced.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2022
Compared to its brethren around the world, Clovis society, with its putative focus on massive, exterminating hunts, would have been an anomaly.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
