How to Use eradicate in a Sentence

eradicate

verb

• The disease has now been completely eradicated.
• His ambition is to eradicate poverty in his community.
• To eradicate it at the source, remove the dirt around it.
  — Michele Petry, House Beautiful, 1 Mar. 2023
• The pigs pose a threat to native wildlife and may prove tough to eradicate.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
• In an attempt to eradicate AI, both sides see and feel the toll of war.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
• Smallpox has been eradicated from the face of the Earth.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• Keep those sink drains free of food particles and eradicate all the gross residue in and around the drain.
  — Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 21 Apr. 2020
• The owner is letting the state eradicate the nest and remove the tree.
  — Nicholas K. Geranios, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• The increase of moisture still won't be enough to eradicate decades of drought.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2023
• Much of the info available on this plant is on how to eradicate it from your lawn, but to me that’s crazy.
  — Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 6 July 2017
• What are the chances that Scheifele’s four-gamer will eradicate such predatory hits from the game?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
• Israel has vowed to secure the return of hostages and to eradicate Hamas.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The struggle to eradicate PFAS from the environment has ramped up in the past few years.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2023
• In years way past, this would be my call to write a nasty column about the need to eradicate the yellow plague.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2022
• But in some cases, the push to eradicate the Guinea worm helped foster peace.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• The goal is to eradicate spoofed numbers from the telephone system.
  — Brooke Crothers, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
• The disease was thought to have been eradicated by around 2000.
  — oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2019
• Its sweep is such that the lines between speech and song are eradicated.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• Shine a light on it — acknowledge it — and eradicate it in your own heart.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 23 Oct. 2017
• That said, Apple will eradicate the notch in the future.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 Aug. 2021
• Is there a sense of catharsis or healing that comes for him as he’s proven right about the anthrax threat and works to eradicate it?
  — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 24 Nov. 2021
• Letting the grass get to 3 or 4 inches can serve as a control, but won’t eradicate clover.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2021
• The idea was to eradicate any indication that the trust did any business in New York, a high-tax state.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
• The global effort to eradicate polio — wipe it from the face of the earth — has been underway since 1988.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
• Samoa might seem like a simple place to eradicate a disease.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 7 July 2020
• There's no better way to eradicate the inevitable mess than with a sleek and lightweight dust-buster.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2023
• But the island had to build hospitals and schools, and eradicate poverty.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
• Gable said the vaccine is safe and her bill is designed to help eradicate cervical cancer in the state.
  — Greg Bishop, Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2020
• Envision a world where everyone can afford a home, homelessness is eradicated and the rate of people on the streets is reduced.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
• To eradicate a disease altogether, the vaccination rate should top 90%.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024