extirpate

How To Use extirpate In A Sentence

• By the mid-1800s deer, beaver, and wild turkey, to name just a few of the most commonly hunted animals, had been all but extirpated from the northeastern United States. Overkill
• The mountain guan is an obligate primary-forest bird that has been extirpated from the forest within the last 10 to 20 years.
• Were it not cruel in these circumstances, here might be the place to insert an observation, gleaned long ago from the great _Clothes-Volume_, where it stands with quite other intent: 'Some time before Small-pox was extirpated,' says the Professor, 'there came a new malady of the spiritual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
• Much as one would wish it so, politically motivated violence directed at civilians by desperate people can no more be extirpated than can ‘evil’ itself.
• Robert Gottfried writes, “By 1351, 60 major and 150 smaller Jewish communities had been extirpated, and over 350 massacres had taken place.” Modern Science in the Bible
• Even the fall of the Roman Empire did not empower ruthless rebels or pseudoreligious cults to extirpate law and order in every corner of the realm.
• Occasionally there are extraordinary exceptions, such as the American alligator, which having been almost extirpated is once again abundant.
• The system is then under fire for not having foreseen the future, that is, for having released the patient before the illness was totally extirpated.
• The last remaining Washington population, near Spokane, is most likely extirpated.
• Unlike the Anglo-Jewish novelist Amy Levy's own ironic rejoinder to Daniel Deronda, Reuben Sachs: A Sketch (1888), Gwendolen leaves the reader in absolutely no doubt of its intentions.3 After a scant few months in the East, Daniel is ready to chuck the Jews overboard permanently: he tells a rabbi that the Jews (parasites all) need to be "extirpated" through mass assimilation (28), and is thoroughly depressed by the "unholy depravities" (64) on exhibit in the Jewish community. Religion