Example sentences for: extricate

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

  • The pan-Arab paper al-Quds al-Arabi published an article by its Palestinian editor, Abdelbari Atwan, saying that "once again Clinton is using the Iraqi people as scapegoats to extricate himself from his domestic crisis.

  • Certainly Dole was a weak candidate, as was Mondale, as was Dukakis, and as was Bush, both when he won in 1988 and when he lost in 1992 (his speechwriter, one Tony Snow, failing to extricate him from his own verbal briar patch).

  • There is only one way for Clinton to extricate himself from this dilemma: He can commute Pollard's sentence so that the spy can't go free until 2001.

  • He is either masochistically neurotic or is figuring out how to extricate himself.

  • Maddeningly, he leads us to the center of the Hobbesian maze, then refuses to extricate us.


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