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
• By eradicating the metal wire, EBY instead opted for a nylon thread, taking over the duty of the wire.
  — Essence, 1 Nov. 2024
• The show pitches the prince's project as an effort to continue his mother Princess Diana's legacy by trying to eradicate homelessness and featured footage from his childhood of mother and son working to help those less fortunate than themselves.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024