How to Use extractive in a Sentence

extractive

1 of 2 adjective

• Your love for them is not extractive, right?
  — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
• And now there’s a much more extractive model.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
• But a powerful web of extractive forces is also at work here.
  — Georgina Gustin, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2021
• No one in the extractive industry ever loomed over me and said, Be there.
  — Paul Theroux, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• And the economic and social fallout of decades of extractive mining in the northwest.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
• Survival says around 96% of the groups face threats from extractive industries like mining.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2025
• The result has been practices that are both extractive and unsustainable.
  — Melanie Canales, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
• The colonization of Africa was an extractive project driven by a lust for resources.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• That means setting up large ocean areas where extractive activities like fishing and mining are banned.
  — Cristina Mittermeier, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• 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
• There’s an extractive process for material resources, one for data, and one for human labor.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2018
• When belonging comes first, growth becomes sustainable rather than extractive.
  — Paige Williams, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• Their production relies on extractive industries, such as the mining of metals for coins.
  — Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2023
• The administration sold off land, cleared a path for extractive industries.
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 17 May 2018
• 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
• The firm has typically focused on extractive industries and the products that result from them.
  — Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2022
• Lawmakers and the media were waking up to the extractive nature of Big Tech's free services.
  — Nitasha Tiku, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Seen through that lens, AI is not troublesome in its own right, but rather whether it is positioned as inclusive or extractive.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 21 June 2026
• 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
• The Terrys’ tree-sit isn’t Appalachia’s first sally against an extractive industry.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 8 May 2018
• 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
• Talking about extraction in this context, then, means that one possible future might be one that’s less extractive, more equitable for all parties.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2021
• That ethos is increasingly visible among early-stage creator tools that have emerged in reaction to extractive platforms.
  — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2026
• The question is whether Malaysia will choose the harder path that leads to regenerative outcomes, or the easier one that leads to extractive growth.
  — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• It is relentlessly consumed, reproduced, and sold, albeit in a less extractive way than the mining and lumber industries once used it.
  — Lucy Jakub, The New York Review of Books, 12 Sep. 2020
• Could D’Amaro be planning to apply these extractive pricing strategies to more products at the company?
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2026
• The very characteristics that make psychedelics effective are at odds with the extractive practices of private enterprise.
  — Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026

extractive

2 of 2 noun

• That changed too, as jobs were lost to free trade and extractive industries like mining promised to replace them.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 2018-07-11
• This, plus the breakneck growth of extractive industries, explains why African forests are disappearing at a rate of 0.5% a year, faster than in South America.
  — The Economist, 2018-04-21