This page shows Extinct in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like dead or active. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Extinct meaning
- Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.
- Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
- Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, languages, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.
Example sentences (20)
Koalas, an iconic Australian species, are officially endangered and are predicted to become extinct in NSW by 2050.
If Israel’s democracy is made extinct and replaced with a theocracy, there’s a substantial price to pay for that.
The problem is worsened by the fact that most extinct-in-the-wild species are held in only a handful of institutions.
Understanding how and why extinct viruses emerged can help predict and prevent future outbreaks of similar pathogens.
His Texas history textbook described the Karankawas as long-extinct 7-foot cannibals who gobbled like turkeys.
They can impersonate the calls of 71 birds including three that are extinct (once again, don't fact-check me).
If we do not find a way to manage for these risks, we will be responsible for letting an entire species of whale go extinct.
Experts declared it extinct in 2009 after it having been absent for 22 years, but the orchid defiantly appeared a week later.
Following a catastrophic asteroid impact, all dinosaurs, including Kazaklambia convincens, were extinct 66 million years ago.
All the truly peaceful religions went extinct a long time ago, what we have remaining are the survivors.
It gave Zeb peace to know he and his people had a home, and they were not as extinct as the Mythosaur.
Immediately afterward, it appeared that had gone as extinct as the dinosaurs themselves, with no further major updates arriving.
This race, however, became extinct through intermarriage with other tribes in India, and also, many died in the war with Ravana.
The last of this species likely went extinct 26,000 years ago, around the same time humans are believed to have arrived in Japan.
In recent years, a large fish thought to be extinct has been spotted in the Mekong River three times.
Without this help and interventions, the animals could become extinct by 2050, according to experts.
We’ve already managed to sequence the DNA genomes of many extinct species, including the great auk.
Mastodons went extinct about 10,000 years ago but their bones have been found across North America.
Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs should be a winning action romp, but this lackluster film is destined to go extinct from your memory.
Surrounded by tracks from several animals, the footprints are thought to belong to the extinct Heidelberg man (Homo heidelbergensis).
Common combinations with extinct
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- extinct in 21×
- an extinct 16×
- become extinct 15×
- the extinct 13×
- went extinct 12×
- go extinct 11×
- be extinct 9×
- declared extinct 9×
- gone extinct 8×
- of extinct 7×
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