How to Use endangered in a Sentence

endangered

adjective
  • The largest owl in the world, the Blakiston’s fish owl is both rare and endangered.
    Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
  • In 1978 the bald eagle was put on the endangered species list.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2019
  • But red wolves are the most endangered canid in the entire world.
    Arkansas Online, 2 July 2021
  • Now, Lien is among the last of a dying breed, a rare and endangered species.
    Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2019
  • How did gray wolves get on the endangered species list?
    Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2019
  • Deer Park shutouts have joined the endangered species list.
    Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The search leads him to El Negro, a vet who asks him to join in the rescue of an endangered jaguar.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The endangered seabird species nests along the coast each summer.
    Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 3 July 2025
  • Interview activists and the scared, the safe and the endangered.
    Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
  • For the sake of my endangered TV screen, if nothing else.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2021
  • In 2007, the bald eagle was removed from the list of threatened and endangered species.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The bird was a whooping crane, the tallest bird in North America and among the most endangered.
    Sara Sneath | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 6 Sep. 2020
  • The Mexican gray wolf is the most endangered subspecies of wolf in the world.
    Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • There are endangered snails that live nowhere else in the world except in the regions around L.A.
    Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2025
  • There haven't been any sites removed from the endangered list this time around.
    Francesca Street, CNN, 28 July 2021
  • Among those moved to the endangered list: the country’s iconic koala.
    New York Times, 19 July 2022
  • Astute birders have a chance to spot rare and endangered birds at the refuge.
    Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
  • For two weeks in May, researchers sailed around part of the gulf, which is the only place vaquitas — the most endangered porpoise in the world — live.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 15 June 2023
  • The species has even been on the endangered species list several times.
    Peter Dawson, Houston Chronicle, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The manual gearbox is an endangered species at this point, outsold by EVs in the U.S. since the end of the last decade.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2023
  • More than 2,000 of those endangered species are used for medicines, food and fuel.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The Kanab ambersnail has been on the endangered species list since 1992.
    USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2020
  • This area is also home to five out of the seven endangered sea turtle species in the world.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In 1967, pupfish were labeled an endangered species, one of the first in the United States.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • In New England, there are nine species of bats, among them the endangered little brown bat.
    Olivia Deng, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Along the way, visitors can stop at the wildlife overlook for a chance to spot endangered wildlife.
    Charlotte Observer, 11 July 2025
  • The bald eagle was removed from the nation’s endangered species list in 2007.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But now they’ve been joined by 53 of Australia’s most endangered bird species.
    Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2021
  • In one of his final public acts, Osbourne designed and signed limited-edition t-shirts to raise funds for the campaign, urging the UK government to ban the import of hunting trophies from endangered species.
    Amanda Castro gabe Whisnant anna Commander shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 2025
  • Doomsday’s gargantuan cast list — announced by way of a staggering number of chairs — reveals that X-Men actors from two decades ago will reprise their roles, likely as part of a separate, endangered universe.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 30 July 2025

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