How to Use extinct in a Sentence

extinct

adjective

• Many of these old traditions have since become extinct.
• By the late 1980s the final bird was captured, making the species extinct in the wild.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
• The scale trees, now extinct, grew to be 100 feet tall and seven feet wide.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 26 July 2023
• After 83 years of treats, many food items that once graced the menu are long extinct.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
• At this rate, both types could go extinct in six months.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• The 21 species declared extinct will bring that total up to 32.
  — Nancy Vu, Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2023
• Cloning extinct animals seems to be all the rage right now.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2023
• Are there any New York City noises that have gone extinct?
  — Curbed, 8 Aug. 2023
• The species had become extinct in the wild by the late 1970s, largely due to killing by humans and habitat loss.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
• The goal: To bring back extinct species at some point in the future, be they elephants, wolves or humpback whales.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
• New Zealand The takahē, a bird once thought to be extinct, is returning to the wild in New Zealand.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
• Sapas Mons, an extinct volcano on Venus, has two peaks.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2023
• In the worst-case scenario, scientists say coral reefs could be extinct in 30 to 50 years.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
• This is a genre of comedy that has almost been extinct for many years.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• The Palos Verdes blue butterfly was once thought to be extinct.
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2023
• In a sense, the extinct woolly mammoth has returned—as a meatball.
  — Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Hunters and mammoths overlapped by about 1,000 years at the end of the last Ice Age, after which point mammoths went extinct.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 18 Jan. 2024
• He’s been up and down Appalachia searching out rare types of his beloved pome, many of which were nearly extinct.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
• Around the world, thousands of languages are in danger of going extinct.
  — Karthik Chidambaram, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• According to some projections, the species could go extinct in the next couple of decades.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• The trees could go extinct within the next three decades unless something changes, some researchers say.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• An extinct group of carnivorans called creodonts have tried to be cats.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
• Yet, by the late 19th or early 20th century, the woolly dogs were extinct.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
• The extinct theropods lived 75 million years ago and likely only laid four to six eggs per cycle.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
• The refineries in Rodeo and Martinez are dinosaurs that should go extinct.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
• Without such help, the animals could be extinct by 2050, NPR added.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 28 Apr. 2023
• Two extinct cats could be cloned and set up in an island park for Jeff Goldblum to admire himself next to.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
• Look for ancient cycad species, some of them extinct in the wild, and aloes with dramatic colors and shapes.
  — Helen Purcell Montag, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
• Siyaya gave birth to the cubs more than 70 years after cheetahs were declared extinct in India.
  — Melissa Gray, CNN, 25 May 2023
• Wolverines nearly went extinct in the western U.S. in the 1920s because of hunting and trapping for their fur.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024