How to Use extant in a Sentence

extant

adjective

• There are few extant records from that period.
• Brands are omnipresent in her life, as extant as air.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
• So this note of sale is special among the extant scraps from his life.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2020
• The film is set at a time when phone booths are still extant, but this is not a screen-free zone.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• At the same time, the extant network of homeless shelters was phased out.
  — Gordon F. Sander, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2018
• Their extant parts will always be haunted by what is missing.
  — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2022
• So far as the extant record shows, Aswell’s reasons were obscure.
  — Colin Asher, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
• Instead, the servers are designed to reduce load-times for extant users.
  — Weston Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2017
• There are more than 2,000 extant ancient guqin.
  — Mike Hanlon march 22, New Atlas, 22 Mar. 2026
• In fact, the rover isn’t supposed to go near places where extant life-forms have any chance of existing.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
• Aerodyne on the show lawn was one of only six examples built, of which just four are extant.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2023
• At the same time, though, gentoo penguins, the third-tallest extant species, have been holding their own.
  — Marcia Bjornerud, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2017
• Remarkably, this is the first time hormones have been seen in the extant or the extinct.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
• So far, a total of nineteen extant and four fossil species of the genus have been described.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Aug. 2022
• The current ocean spike might be an El Niño event on top of extant climate change.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 1 May 2023
• The blue whale is, at the moment, the largest animal, extant or extinct, known to have lived.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019
• These days, the world of dynastic wealth — while still extant — is both diminished and changed.
  — Vulture, 27 May 2023
• The adult length of extant species ranges from 8 inches in some species, to over 10 feet in others.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
• Saunders referenced much of the brand’s extant designs for the project.
  — Vogue, 15 Nov. 2019
• One of these monuments is extant and one was destroyed a few years after its creation.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2017
• But the elephant bird made even the ostrich – which holds the title as the world’s largest extant bird – look petite.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
• But that flip from present to absent, extant to extinct, is just the endpoint of a long period of loss.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 10 July 2017
• It is thought to have evolved before the common ancestor of either extant monotreme.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
• Jurassic Park in the sense of creating creatures that are no longer extant.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Aug. 2022
• Xxxtentacion’s estate has so far only issued a few extant tracks, but his presence is all over the charts.
  — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
• In fact, there is already a similar example in the extant record.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
• As a result, scientists study the mass of all sorts of species, whether extant or extinct, to learn about their lifestyles.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2022
• It’s claimed that about 70 percent of all Rolls-Royces ever built are still extant.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 5 July 2022
• In each of the extant nine accounts, the victim is captured in battle and has an eagle of some sort carved into their back.
  — Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
• Few extant movie studios have properties that go back as far or play as rich as Warner Bros.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025