Example Sentences

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But for the last 100 years, Chicagoland cities have been extracting way more water than has been naturally replenished.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2022

Since the 1960s, researchers have been extracting long cores of ice from Antarctica, Greenland and other snowy locales.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2021

The 13-year-old boy and his brother Dawenson, 9, have been extracting and reselling wires and cables found in the wreckage since the quake struck on Aug. 14, killing over 2,000 people across Haiti.

From Reuters • Aug. 24, 2021

"For many years they have been extracting serious wealth out of our country and much of this wealth has not come back to the people of Zimbabwe but has been externalised," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2011

Dentists have been extracting infected teeth as alleviation of bad tonsils, sore eyes, arthritis and certain heart affections.

From Time Magazine Archive