Eradicate
in example sentence
The invention of the insecticide DDT and cheap drugs helped rich countries practically
eradicate
it after World War II, making it a disease largely confined to poor countries.
More example sentences with word eradicate
Augustine understood that our capacity to screw up, it's not some kind of embarrassing defect in the human system, something we can
eradicate
or overcome.
It's been working for 20 years to try and
eradicate
this disease, and it's got it down to these few cases that you can see here on this graphic.
The first is that, when we started trying to
eradicate
polio about 20 years ago, more than twice as many countries were infected than had been when we started off with smallpox.
So you can't see the enemy most of the time, and as a result, we've needed a very different approach to
eradicate
polio than what was done with smallpox.
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