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How To Use extermination In A Sentence

• Our ability to stress over trivial cultural issues while ignoring the extermination of the environment will make medieval peasants believing in miracles seem as reasonable as Einstein.
• These are (1) the production in the blood of an antidote to the toxin or poison elaborated by the invading microbe -- an antitoxin, which chemically neutralises the toxin; (2) the production in the blood of the attacked animal of a "germicidal" poison which repels and kills the attacking microbes themselves (not merely neutralising their poisonous products); (3) the extermination of the intrusive, disease-producing microbes by a kind of police, which scour the blood channels and tissues and "eat up" -- actually engulf and digest -- the hostile intruders. More Science From an Easy Chair
• In the final two chapters, he makes his final case against the extermination of the remaining smallpox stockpiles.
• Morgan with an expression of insolence such as might well warrant the belief that he held feud with all grangers and made their discomfiture, dislodgment, and extermination the chief business of his life. Trail's End
• Allied energies focused on mobility and prefabrication, while the Nazis aimed for "enslavement and extermination. Building for War
• He interlaced the death of an actual bruin with an American storytelling tradition that used the moment of extermination to build and express cross-species empathy.
• Sometimes the train puffed between lines of grey slab fencing in which were armies of white skeleton trees that had been 'rung' for extermination, or with bleached stumps sticking up in a chaos of felled trunks, while in some there had sprung up sickly iron-bark saplings. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
• The most fatal and wide-spread disease, and one which since 1854 has threatened the extermination of silk worms in Europe, is the _pebrine_. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
• For example, extermination of a big battle cruiser is such a task.
• This Indian fighter firmly grasped the notion of Manifest Destiny saying that America's extermination of the Indians and thefts our their lands was ultimately beneficial as it was inevitable.