Example sentences for: extermination

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

  • Note 9: "Thus interpreted, the Nazi extermination both justifies the necessity of Israel and accounts for all hostility directed at it: The Jewish state is the only safeguard against the next outbreak of homicidal anti-Semitism and, conversely, homicidal anti-Semitism is behind every attack on, or even defensive maneuver against, the Jewish state.

  • At least irony is unlikely to be used to justify programmes of conquest or extermination."

  • The WP lead editorial states that eight to ten members of Pot's extermination committee are still at large, and the NYT lead editorial says that the current head of Cambodia, Hun Sen, is also a henchmen.

  • 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.

  • Berlin’s Jewish population, which stood at 170,000 in 1933, was reduced by emigration and extermination to around 6,000 by 1945.


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