Sentence examples for is exterminated from inspiring English sources
verb
To kill all of a population, usually deliberate and especially applied to pests.
- We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.
It is a film in which, lest you forget, everyone is exterminated when they turn 30.
Albert, a taxi driver who declined to give his surname, said: "Every other day someone is exterminated.
Growing out of control, the supercolony in effect eats up its own territory and is exterminated by "the moving tree trunks, the ant gods"—ie, humans spraying insecticide.
Farmers can then spray this over their crops once or twice a year and everything but the soya is exterminated leaving the soya to grow vigorously with highly profitable yields and little maintenance.
"I don't get criticism for it in Japan because in all my films the yakuza is exterminated - what goes around comes around and those who commit violence eventually receive violence from other people as a kind of retribution".
(While negotiating with the Danish governor about a legal case, she declares, "It may be that the most victorious race is the one that is exterminated: I will not plead with words for mercy for the Icelanders. We Icelanders are truly not too good to die. And life has meant nothing to us for a long time").
The United States is exterminating the Vietnamese.
The Tatars were exterminated.
Pests must be exterminated.
Jews needed to be exterminated.
"Baba Amr is being exterminated.
