How to Use endangered in a Sentence

endangered

adjective
  • 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
  • In 2007, the bald eagle was removed from the list of threatened and endangered species.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • 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 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
  • In New England, there are nine species of bats, among them the endangered little brown bat.
    Olivia Deng, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The bald eagle was removed from the nation’s endangered species list in 2007.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
  • That all makes the endangered program all the more important.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Is the algorithm going to make the out-of-shape nebbish standup an endangered species?
    Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The San Diego Zoo recently caught one of its endangered elephants dancing – and singing – in the rain.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • This movement has a unique if endangered place in the nation’s psyche.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The suit contends that the fishery should be closed to protect endangered killer whales in Puget Sound that feed on chinook salmon.
    Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
  • To bring the whole shebang across the finish line, the dome became filled with images of the various endangered species in the nearby desert.
    Brad Auerbach, Spin, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are the smallest, rarest and most endangered species of sea turtle in the world.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 14 July 2023
  • The success of the TMA genetic seed bank gives hope to those seeking to preserve other endangered tree species the world over.
    Heide Brandes, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Folk purists became an endangered species once the psychedelia movement began in 1967.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The speed restriction, designed to protect the endangered right whale, would stay in effect for up to seven months out of the year and as far out as 100 miles off the East Coast.
    Douglas Kennedy, Fox News, 23 June 2023
  • Sperm whales are now protected as an endangered species, the website says.
    Sarah Dewberry, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • On the East Coast, speed limits are mandatory to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale.
    Ben Tracy, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The area is home to endangered species like the California condor and humpback chub, as well as more than a dozen endemic species of plants.
    Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2023
  • And if not, should Americans be willing to sacrifice a few endangered species in the name of tackling climate change?
    Sammy Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
  • While some species have been less successful (namely cheetahs), others, such as the endangered African wild dog, have thrived.
    Mary Holland, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2023
  • There are several endangered species that still live on the land, including the black-footed ferret, as well as wolves and grizzly bears.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The team is now looking into whether their sound systems could be used to steer endangered species like the Southern white rhino away from poaching areas in South Africa.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The researchers found out that the majority of these specimens belonged to the now extinct Atlantic gray whale and the North Atlantic right whale, an endangered species.
    Naomi Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Threatened by both poaching and habitat loss, African elephants are an endangered species.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The endangered whales now congregating around Cape Cod make up about a quarter of the world’s population of North Atlantic right whales.
    Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
  • An endangered monk seal pup found dead on the North Shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu last month was most likely killed in a dog attack, federal officials said.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 26 July 2023
  • The bay—engineered and less than six miles from the Canaries’ second-largest city—is a surprising haven for pups of one of the world’s most critically endangered fish: the angel shark.
    Dag Goering, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • At least three California condors, an endangered species, have died from bird flu in Arizona since last month.
    Claire Moses, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • This puts the species at risk of extinction, because without males, the endangered reptiles can’t reproduce.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023

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