How to Use extractive in a Sentence

extractive

adjective

• No one in the extractive industry ever loomed over me and said, Be there.
  — Paul Theroux, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• The 1991 Madrid Protocol banned extractive mining and seeks to preserve the unique ecosystem of the world’s last true wilderness.
  — Alexander B. Gray, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2021
• Like any extractive industry, coal has had its share of booms and busts, but more often than not there was good money to be made.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 24 May 2021
• But a powerful web of extractive forces is also at work here.
  — Georgina Gustin, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2021
• The phrase refers to the shade cast by a palm tree and is used to describe the effects of extractive export industries: the profits are enjoyed by people far from the source.
  — Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• For drivers caught in the state’s carceral dragnet, fines and fees imposed by the government are just one side of an extractive coin.
  — Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
• The Antofagasta region, where the bay sits, is one of Chile’s wealthiest due to the high amount of extractive industries.
  — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2020
• Lawmakers and the media were waking up to the extractive nature of Big Tech's free services.
  — Nitasha Tiku, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2019
• Brazil and Peru’s policies to open up more of the Amazon to roads and extractive industries is a direct threat to some of the world’s last isolated tribes.
  — Charlie Hamilton James, History & Culture, 20 Nov. 2020
• And one of the most tragic consequences of this extractive economy is the staggering loss of half the planet’s trees.
  — Jeff Horowitz, Time, 21 Sep. 2021
• The colonization of Africa was an extractive project driven by a lust for resources.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• All too often, it’s from extractive industries like oil and gas.
  — Time, 17 June 2021
• The dismembering of manuscripts is part of a larger story, a tale of extractive patronage and the passage of empires.
  — Naib Mian, The New Yorker, 1 June 2022
• Millions died during his extractive reign, and ever since, the rainforest has rarely known peace.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2023
• The result has been practices that are both extractive and unsustainable.
  — Melanie Canales, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
• And this region is only one of the many places throughout the world where a rapidly changing climate and extractive practices are damaging the health and well-being of our neighbors.
  — Clovis Honoré, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
• My thesis at the College of Charleston was all on extractive poetry — which is poetry dealing with one of the visual arts.
  — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
• When the manipulation of science in favor of extractive and harmful agendas hasn’t been dealt with, there’s no doubt people will be wary.
  — Shannon Dosemagen, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2021
• The Terrys’ tree-sit isn’t Appalachia’s first sally against an extractive industry.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 8 May 2018
• And now, as a result of monopolies' extractive business models, the rest of the economy must battle the pandemic from a point of weakness.
  — Sally Hubbard At Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
• The firm has typically focused on extractive industries and the products that result from them.
  — Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2022
• Major roads and railways often lead to the coasts, a legacy of extractive colonialism, which inhibits trade between countries.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• For nearly a decade, the group of about 100 women has fought to protect Indigenous land from extractive oil companies and against gender violence.
  — Christina Noriega, refinery29.com, 23 Oct. 2021
• Their production relies on extractive industries, such as the mining of metals for coins.
  — Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2023
• The family lives in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, which was created after his death and is part of a system of more than 75 extractive reserves that have since been established across the region.
  — Brian Barth, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2021
• Since the 2000s, the advance of extractive technologies to access harder-to-reach deposits has led to a resurgence of oil extraction activities.
  — Bhavna Shamasunder, The Conversation, 2 June 2021
• In Brazil, women from a number of Indigenous groups have led an effort to defend the Amazon forest and waters from extractive industries.
  — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• There’s an extractive process for material resources, one for data, and one for human labor.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2018
• That means setting up large ocean areas where extractive activities like fishing and mining are banned.
  — Cristina Mittermeier, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• The money dedicated to the port project came from Community Impact Funds, which is cash paid by the coal, oil and gas companies to mitigate the impacts of the extractive industries.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024