Explore Extermination through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like extinction or annihilation. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Extermination meaning
- The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
- Elimination.
Synonyms of Extermination
Using Extermination
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication. | Elimination.
- Useful related words include: extinction, annihilation, disintegration, liquidation.
- In the example corpus, extermination often appears in combinations such as: extermination of, the extermination, of extermination.
Context around Extermination
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Extermination
- In this selection, "extermination" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, losses, treblinka, monster, camp, unit and camps stand out and add context to how "extermination" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aid your extermination efforts you and and the extermination of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "extermination" sits close to words such as abiola, algebras and altria, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with extermination
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Volume 2, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, is titled The Years of Extermination. (14 words)
The U.S. is funding & arming the Israeli military’s extermination of the Palestinian people. (15 words)
In October 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo oversaw a week-long extermination campaign along the border. (16 words)
War losses, extermination of Jews Samuel Willenberg showing his drawings of the Treblinka extermination camp A lack of accurate data makes it difficult to document numerically the extent of the human losses suffered by Polish citizens during World War II. (40 words)
If you answered that it was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, which operated in Poland from 1940 to 1945, then congratulations, you are among a majority of Americans who have at least some rudimentary awareness of the Holocaust. (40 words)
The extermination of minorities is followed by a systematic erasure of the truth — every cowboy movie that John Wayne ever starred in is fundamentally guilty of denying the disturbing foundation upon which America was built. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
War losses, extermination of Jews Samuel Willenberg showing his drawings of the Treblinka extermination camp A lack of accurate data makes it difficult to document numerically the extent of the human losses suffered by Polish citizens during World War II.
Current secrecy efforts help guard the animals from an extermination ethos shared by many early settlers: a belief in a God-given duty to kill rattlesnakes as a satanic stain on an Edenic landscape.
Ducks sit in a cage waiting to be sent to a slaughterhouse for extermination due to the avian flu outbreak that began in late November, at a farm in Doazit, southwestern France, on Jan.
He then joins the monster extermination unit and must navigate his new life as a kaiju and find a way to control his powers.
If you answered that it was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, which operated in Poland from 1940 to 1945, then congratulations, you are among a majority of Americans who have at least some rudimentary awareness of the Holocaust.
In October 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo oversaw a week-long extermination campaign along the border.
The case of collaborationist in the extermination camps is a good example, as is the basic instinct to escape from death in the face of tragedy.
The true tragedy of Anakin's downfall and the extermination of the Jedi is tangible, though the events are not seen onscreen.
Volume 2, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, is titled The Years of Extermination.
Overseas you have the more extreme end with Nazi Extermination Camps or the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
The extermination of minorities is followed by a systematic erasure of the truth — every cowboy movie that John Wayne ever starred in is fundamentally guilty of denying the disturbing foundation upon which America was built.
The fact that there is no “final solution” does not mean that it is not a process of extermination.
The Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas said that Israel continues its war of extermination, as Israeli relentless bombings killed over 60 Palestinians in central, southern Gaza.
The secretary-general of the Arab League accused Israel of conducting a war of extermination against Palestinians, asserting that the military operations in the West Bank are unrelated to the October 7 attacks.
The U.S. is funding & arming the Israeli military’s extermination of the Palestinian people.
This is NOT a war, it is a genocide, an ethnic cleansing, an extermination of an innocent people just because they're different.
This policy, inflicted as part of a mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, means Israeli authorities have committed the crime against humanity of extermination, which is ongoing.
To aid your extermination efforts, you get some of the most explosive weapons you'll see in video games.
Why not call this orgy of pro Hamas, Hezbollah Islamofascism, its core antisemitism, its Oct 7th out for it true agenda, the final extermination of the state of Israel, the Jew.
After Yu escapes, he joins the vampire extermination unit and slowly learns that humanity created the virus.
Common combinations with extermination
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- extermination of 30×
- the extermination 22×
- of extermination 16×
- extermination camps 14×
- extermination camp 11×
- and extermination 6×
- an extermination 4×
- extermination against 4×
- for extermination 3×
- extermination campaign 3×