Example sentences for: extermination

How can you use “extermination” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One has to admit, these terms represent an improvement over one term that used to be applied to Missourians during the days of persecution in the mid-19th century (the Missouri state legislature still had an official Mormon extermination order on its books until someone discovered it in the archives in the 1970s): they were affectionat4ely known as Pukes .

  • The model for an international war-crimes tribunal is the Nuremberg trials , established by Allied victors in Germany to try the 24 highest-ranking Nazis . Their crimes included the "deliberate instigation of aggressive wars," the extermination of racial and religious groups, and the murder and mistreatment of prisoners of war.

  • What have the Iraqi people done to the Americans and their President to deserve such disdain and to be singled out for destruction, death, and extermination?"

  • In fact, their statements about extermination orders from above evolved over time, Birn explains, as part of a "defense focused on superior orders as an excuse."

  • La Repubblica of Rome began its front-page report from Djankovic on the Macedonia-Yugoslav border as follows: "Mass executions, psychological and physical torture, rapes, devastation, sackings, and extermination camps.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast