Example Sentences

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Mr. Smith is vegan, yet not an absolutist: he will exterminate cockroaches in his apartment in Manhattan’s Union Square, he said.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2022

She will never believe that separation will exterminate her passion.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

To Exterminate Roaches.—A housewife says that a few drops of turpentine sprinkled around where roaches gather will exterminate them at once.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

I guarantee that it will exterminate love absolutely.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

No nets will exterminate these spawn-eating, fry-eating, all-eating pests, who devour the little trout, and starve the large ones, and, at the first sign of the net, fly to hover among the most tangled roots. 

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Kingsley, Charles