exterminate

In 17th century Ireland, Robyn Goodfellowe is an apprentice hunter who follows her father when he’s called in to exterminate wolves.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025

A woman who accidentally killed an 11-year-old neighbour with poisonous gas she used to exterminate bedbugs has been spared jail by a judge at the Old Bailey.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2024

Mr. Biden will travel to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to deliver the keynote address of the Holocaust museum’s yearly event and remember the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2024

But he personally observed the protest and confirmed there was no direct call to exterminate Jews.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

One cannot interrupt galaxy formation, start and stop hurricanes and ice ages, experimentally exterminate grizzly bears in a few national parks, or rerun the course of dinosaur evolution.

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

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

And yet they allow that in a few cases, nature, without the assistance of a physician, exterminates the poison of this fatal disease, and a perfect recovery is produced.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

Within about 50 years, the crocodiles had been completely exterminated.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026

Along with the passenger pigeon we exterminated the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the Labrador duck and the ivory-billed woodpecker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Live mosquitoes will be exterminated using ultraviolet light.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

Over time, beekeepers have kept hives that are more docile and exterminated bees that show aggressive tendencies in an effort to keep the majority of wild bees calm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

While those birds were important food sources for the initial colonists, especially on New Zealand’s South Island, most of them were soon exterminated on all islands, because they were easy to hunt down.

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

Liias — who is a self-proclaimed pollinator champion — recently sponsored Senate Bill 5972 to restrict neonicotinoids, or a particularly harmful class of pesticides that kill indiscriminately, exterminating not only pests but also countless pollinators.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

"They are called weeds by gardeners, but they have value, and we should be celebrating the dandelions not exterminating them," he said.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2023

“Why did he do that? Because the culture was exterminating too. He just went along with what the outer world was telling him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

Managers could consider adding artificial salt licks to places that lack them, for example, or exterminating goats in areas where they were introduced.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2022

During those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing dirty, tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle: mucking out warehouses, exterminating vermin, painting, scything weeds.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer