How to Use extraction in a Sentence

extraction

noun

• Then came proof of the dangers of unchecked extraction.
  — Gaiutra Bahadur Keisha Scarville, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• The beans ground with water had a longer extraction time and a stronger brew, even if they were made with the same beans.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Dec. 2023
• The thing about systemic trauma is that it is built on the extraction of joy.
  — Quartz, 22 Feb. 2023
• That is the effective extraction limit of the pumps, many of which now lie abandoned.
  — Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
• While care should be taken during the seed extraction, adults and children will find the process fun and worthwhile.
  — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2023
• As fans should know, the state’s pillage people have other means of extraction.
  — K. Lloyd Billingsley, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• During the extraction process, flavonoids and terpenes are removed from the cannabis plant to produce CBD isolate.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
• The shift from a model that is not just extractive of user data — but where, to borrow a phrase, extraction is the point.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• By now, Wiley had issued new orders for the extraction process.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• This involves adding chemicals to the brine to speed up the extraction process and replacing the remaining brine.
  — Daniel Markind, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• What sets Elm & Rye apart is their unique extraction process, which utilizes a blend of CO2 and ethanol extraction methods.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• Both the driver and front passenger were pronounced dead at the scene, and the two back passengers required extraction.
  — The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• These are places of prayer for the Havasupai, who have long fought to regain some control over the places and to protect them from overuse and mineral extraction.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
• The jobs will have to be where the workers are, and most fossil fuel extraction workers are not in regions where green jobs are expected to grow.
  — Morgan R. Frank, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• In Alaska, ocean farming could chart a different path from the sort of extraction that’s defined it for more than two centuries.
  — Juliet Eilperin, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2023
• And because one of the main jobs of a tooth is to hold its neighbors in place, an extraction often has a domino effect: Losing teeth leads to losing more teeth.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• The outsole also offers great extraction for the poolside and beachside.
  — Bernd Fischer, menshealth.com, 10 May 2023
• Ellie would die as a result of the extraction, and Joel will do anything in his power to prevent that from happening.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 14 Mar. 2023
• The vote comes as the city phases out existing oil and gas wells, a historic move approved last year by the City Council that also bans new oil and gas extraction.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• The authors posit that much of this nation has been built on a never-ending cycle of extraction and exploitation.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• Fentanyl is the pain medication used during and after the extraction process.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• The current study does not indicate whether metal extraction is possible at the site.
  — Manish Kumar, Quartz, 20 Feb. 2023
• The design allows for slow, even dripping, which makes for optimal flavor extraction and a robust cup of joe.
  — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 12 July 2023
• Such are the paradoxes of the globalized green economy, in which blocking a mine in one place means shifting extraction somewhere else.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 11 July 2023
• Then comes the extraction process, essentially a bath in which the flowers are immersed at a high temperature in metal crates in a solvent that soaks up all of their scent.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The hours-long snake extraction was the culmination of weeks spent tracking the signal put out by Prairie Dog’s collar after an alert that the animal had stopped moving.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
• That reduces the carbon footprint of gold extraction by roughly 25 percent.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
• In sheer volume today, the extraction of the most scrutinized of those materials—oil—is dwarfed by the other five: sand, salt, iron, copper and lithium.
  — Arthur Herman, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
• All the same, the technology is unproven at large scales, and no one really knows whether or how well tritium production and extraction will work.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• This is mostly because the water isn’t boiling, but rather shot through an electric heating tube that doesn’t get enough for proper extraction to occur.
  — Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024