灭 (miè) means Extinguish (destroy - kill). Below are 10 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
离开时请熄 灭 火源。
Líkāi shí qǐng xīmiè huǒyuán.
Please put out any fire before leaving.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 熄灭
这个古国最终 灭 亡了。
Zhège gǔguó zuìzhōng mièwáng le.
This ancient state eventually perished.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 灭亡
这种动物已经濒临 灭 绝。
Zhè zhǒng dòngwù yǐjīng bīnlín mièjué.
This animal is already on the verge of extinction.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 濒临
贪心最终毁 灭 了他自己。
Tānxīn zuìzhōng huǐmiè le tā zìjǐ.
Greed destroyed him in the end.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 毁灭
他们努力消 灭 这种害虫。
Tāmen nǔlì xiāomiè zhè zhǒng hàichóng.
They worked hard to wipe out this pest.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 消灭
一场大火毁 灭 了这座村庄。
Yì chǎng dàhuǒ huǐmiè le zhè zuò cūnzhuāng.
A great fire destroyed this village.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 毁灭
贫困不是短期就能消 灭 的。
Pínkùn bú shì duǎnqī jiù néng xiāomiè de.
Poverty cannot be eliminated in the short term.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 消灭
灯 灭 的刹那，全场安静了下来。
Dēng miè de chànà, quánchǎng ānjìng le xiàlái.
The instant the lights went out, the whole hall fell silent.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 刹那
自然规律决定了旧事物的 灭 亡。
Zìrán guīlǜ juédìng le jiù shìwù de mièwáng.
Natural law determines the passing away of old things.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 灭亡
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How is 灭 used in a sentence?
This page shows 10 sentences using 灭 (miè, "Extinguish (destroy - kill)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 灭 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 灭 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
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The dictionary page for 灭 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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