Explore Extirpating through 3 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Extirpating meaning
present participle and gerund of extirpate
Using Extirpating
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of extirpate
Context around Extirpating
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Extirpating
- In this selection, "extirpating" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, islamic and jansenism stand out and add context to how "extirpating" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include detecting and extirpating jansenism and and interest is extirpating islamic state. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "extirpating" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with extirpating
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Britain’s main interest is extirpating Islamic State forces. (9 words)
Ethics, he taught, depended on understanding the nature of the universe, and he taught a therapy of extirpating the unruly passions which depress and crush the soul. (27 words)
He also sent to France his famous " formulary ", that was to be signed by all the clergy as a means of detecting and extirpating Jansenism and which inflamed public opinion, leading to Blaise Pascal 's defense of Jansenism. (38 words)
He also sent to France his famous " formulary ", that was to be signed by all the clergy as a means of detecting and extirpating Jansenism and which inflamed public opinion, leading to Blaise Pascal 's defense of Jansenism. (38 words)
Ethics, he taught, depended on understanding the nature of the universe, and he taught a therapy of extirpating the unruly passions which depress and crush the soul. (27 words)
Britain’s main interest is extirpating Islamic State forces. (9 words)
Example sentences (3)
Britain’s main interest is extirpating Islamic State forces.
Ethics, he taught, depended on understanding the nature of the universe, and he taught a therapy of extirpating the unruly passions which depress and crush the soul.
He also sent to France his famous " formulary ", that was to be signed by all the clergy as a means of detecting and extirpating Jansenism and which inflamed public opinion, leading to Blaise Pascal 's defense of Jansenism.