How to Use extinct in a Sentence

extinct

adjective

• Many of these old traditions have since become extinct.
• That's not to say the genre is extinct.
  — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• But the species wasn’t extinct just yet.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2026
• What species have gone extinct?
  — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
• Most of them are going extinct in the wild.
  — Eyder Peralta, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
• Its price might make your life savings extinct.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
• Cheap new cars are nearly extinct.
  — Keenan Thompson, Freep.com, 14 Oct. 2025
• Not long after, they were declared extinct in the wild.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• After 83 years of treats, many food items that once graced the menu are long extinct.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
• This is a genre of comedy that has almost been extinct for many years.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• Sea stars almost went extinct along the West Coast a decade ago.
  — Casey Parks, Washington Post, 6 June 2026
• What other extinct species are on your list to revive in the future?
  — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025
• The companies that fail to do this will fall behind -- and may even go extinct.
  — Tomas Gorny, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Some of the species went extinct during the many decades covered by the data.
  — Christopher A. Lepczyk, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
• The scale trees, now extinct, grew to be 100 feet tall and seven feet wide.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 26 July 2023
• However, the game has done its darnedest to make players like him extinct.
  — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2025
• An extinct group of carnivorans called creodonts have tried to be cats.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
• The northern white rhino is also extinct in the wild.
  — Heather Abbott, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
• The megalodon is an extinct species of shark, with its teeth roughly the size of a human head.
  — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
• Most stem tetrapods went extinct long before Tanyka lived.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
• Since the act’s passing, not one marine mammal has gone extinct.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
• The species is now locally extinct.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
• The upside is that there are some species that can help fill the role of some of these species that are going extinct.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
• But low-cost third spaces (a place that's not school and not home) for tweens are becoming extinct.
  — Annabelle Canela, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
• In a sense, the extinct woolly mammoth has returned—as a meatball.
  — Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Around the world, thousands of languages are in danger of going extinct.
  — Karthik Chidambaram, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Those who served as winners in the military are almost extinct.
  — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2025
• The pygmy hippopotamus, once thought to surface in the swamps, is believed to be extinct.
  — Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
• Thirty-five species have already been declared extinct, and more are likely gone.
  — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
• The trees could go extinct within the next three decades unless something changes, some researchers say.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023