- present tense form of exterminate (3rd person singular).
exterminates
Example Sentences
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While she has been seemingly ruthless in her job as a sniper who exterminates the game players who fail, she also has sympathy for Gyeong-seok, having left behind a daughter of her own up North.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024
If some chance event exterminates them—for example the glaciers freezing fast onto their beds—then the likelihood of new animals making it in from the outside to recolonize the lakes afterward is extremely low.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 3, 2015
In the dawn of consciousness, the new race, Homo sapiens, exterminates the Neanderthal men, demonstrating the author's point that history moves in blind ways.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Inheritors, by William Golding In the dawn of consciousness, the new race, Homo sapiens, exterminates the Neander thal men, demonstrating the author's point that history moves in blind ways.
From Time Magazine Archive
I told Moe how a man exterminates useful or harmless species, and then he lets dangerous ones, like rats, eat him out of house and home.
From Thy Rocks and Rills by Gilbert, Robert E.
