exterminator

Example Sentences

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The second reports calling in a professional exterminator, but after a week or two the mice returned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

He started out as an exterminator in New York City and has spent his life immersed in rats.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

“Bees are still wild animals” but nothing to call an exterminator for, Durboraw said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024

My husband called an exterminator, who agreed to come the next morning.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2024

I ran past the gym doors—“Can’t you go any faster?” from Coach Quatrini—and out into the parking lot, where the exterminator truck had pulled up to unload Sycorax and Caliban into their new cage.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt