Example Sentences

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Over the past five centuries, alien germs and epidemics spread by European colonizers have exterminated scores of Indigenous societies around the world.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2021

By the next major anniversary, he said, “time will have exterminated almost all of us.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2015

These marines are well-equipped, and they are confident – the reference to “another bug hunt” suggests that they have exterminated infestations before.

From Forbes • Feb. 19, 2013

Hunters expanding southward through the Americas, encountering big animals that had never seen humans before, may have found those American animals easy to kill and may have exterminated them.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

To save his life he had but to submit to the enemy; the invader would not have exterminated him.

From The Wrack of the Storm by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander