How to Use extirpate in a Sentence

extirpate

verb
  • The gray wolf is believed to have been extirpated from the state in the 1920s.
    — Suzanne Espinosa Solis, SFChronicle.com, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Before then, gray wolves had been extirpated from the state since the 1920s.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Before then, gray wolves had been extirpated from the state since the 1920s.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Nov. 2024
  • In the Southern Ocean, blue whales were almost extirpated in the 1920s.
    — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2016
  • It’s believed the owl with bright yellow eyes has been extirpated from 16% of its range in parts of the coast and Central Valley.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Wolves were extirpated from the state in the 1940s mainly because of their depredation of livestock.
    — USA TODAY, 12 July 2019
  • They were largely extirpated from the U.S. by the mid-20th century due to habitat loss and hunting.
    — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Each species had been extirpated or nearly so over the last 150 years but in recent decades returned to robust numbers.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Wolves were extirpated from California in 1924, and are just now starting to enter the state again.
    — Eduardo Medina, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2019
  • The site notes that the red wolf was extirpated from Alabama — meaning it was destroyed or completely removed from the state.
    — Nick Patterson, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The way to extirpate this bias is by realizing that the concept of death is not an all-or-nothing matter, but rather a spectrum—something that comes in degrees.
    — Susana Monsó, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The way to extirpate this bias is by realizing that the concept of death is not an all-or-nothing matter, but rather a spectrum—something that comes in degrees.
    — Susana Monsó, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The animals are native to Wisconsin, but were extirpated by the late 1800s due to overhunting and changes to their habitat.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The seals had been extirpated from New England by the early 1960s, largely a result of culling by commercial fishers.
    — Jim Behnke, Scientific American, 2 July 2023
  • For some 50 years, the two main predators of moose--wolves and grizzlies--have been absent from the southern portion of the Yellowstone ecosystem, extirpated by humans.
    — Mark Wheeler, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The modern left’s mission to extirpate sin from society is the product of a secular religion of the most austere sort.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Now, by moving against the commission, Mr. Biden looks to extirpate classical roots.
    — James Panero, WSJ, 26 May 2021
  • It has been completely killed off in Canada and is listed as extirpated in Canada.
    — Stan Tekiela, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The bird is considered extirpated, or nearly extinct, in the Garden State.
    — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 2 May 2018
  • They were nearly extirpated from the wild in U.S. waters, hunted for their pelts or government bounties.
    — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017
  • They were nearly extirpated from the wild in U.S. waters, hunted for their pelts or government bounties.
    — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017
  • Over a century before the idea of extinction was accepted, those who extirpated the dodo did not keep detailed records of the bird’s decline.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2011
  • Leaders who attempt to take a moderate stance run the risk of being publicly lynched by those who insist that Chavismo is an evil that must be extirpated.
    — Ivan Briscoe, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2019
  • But there’s one pesky thing that will be tough to extirpate: the idea of the individual as distinct from the tribe, and the idea that governments derive their consent from the governed, that the rights of the individual transcend time and place.
    — James Lileks, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • Neandertals are finally expiring as a species in the face of the advance of modern humans, who marginalize and extirpate all those who came before.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2010
  • In Indonesia, the V.O.C. eventually followed up the massacre of a people with an effort to extirpate a botanical species.
    — Olufemi O. Taiwo, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Brave nonconformists across Cuban civil society, whom the regime is determined to extirpate, are merely collateral damage in a wider war against the values of the West.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 12 June 2022
  • The species flourished after its chief predator, the grizzly, was extirpated there, in the early twentieth century.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The researchers begin by extirpating some common myths.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The wolf is native to Wisconsin but was extirpated by the 1960s after decades of unregulated hunting and bounties.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023

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