extinct
[ɪkˈstɪŋkt]
Definition:
1. No longer in existence.
2. No longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives.
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'extinct' example sentence:
- All hopes were extinct.
- Indeed, most analysts believe that some kind of environmental degradation underlies the demise of many extinct salmon populations.
- With all that attention paid to them, you'd think these creatures would at least have the gratitude not to go extinct.
- The dinosaur became extinct before the appearance of man.
- This was a landscape where antelope of all kinds abounded—along with Bos primigenius, a kind of oxen that has become extinct.
- The beavers were hunted a lot, overhunted, they are almost extinct by the 1800s, that meant fewer wetlands, less standing water.
- There's always some guesswork when studying extinct animals.
- Is there anything could rekindle his extinct passion?
- The extinct volcano's eruption would mean a cataclysm for the city.
- Many jobs have become extinct with the advent of computers.
- The wild ginseng of Manchuria and korea, hunted assiduously for centuries, is now all but extinct.
- Except it's difficult to analyze the genes of the extinct mosasaurs.
- Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
- When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals: they suddenly became extinct.
- Have you ever thought that one day mankind would be extinct?
- The Burgess Shale formation also has fossils of many extinct representatives of modern animal groups.
- Let's take the now extinct American cheetah, for instance.
- Thanks to natural selection, most species that have ever lived has already gone extinct, so this is not a new phenomenon.
- Boundary clay layers are used by scientists to determine the rate at which an extinct species declined.
- You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct.
- As is known to all, the panda is in danger of becoming extinct.
- Estimate of extinct time and cost in the stochastic epidemic model.
- Conservation groups say 80 species are known to have become extinct, 16 in the last year alone.
- We must protect these endangered animals before they become extinct.
- Will human being go extinct one day?
- This break in Earth's history is marked by a mass extinction, when as many as half the species on the planet became extinct.
- Geigl and her colleagues looked at 3200-year-old fossil bones belonging to a single individual of an extinct cattle species called an aurochs.
- Mammoths became extinct in prehistoric times.
- If rare animals were extinct, how our life would be influenced?
- Species began going extinct at a much faster pace.
- Without the education, human beings, just like some animals, would become extinct.
- Many animals that lived thousands of years ago are now extinct.
- And at one time in the past, I almost became extinct.
- If you do not change, you can become extinct.
- When a species goes extinct, it dramatically changes the landscape of biodiversity.
- They will tum out to be the second-largest species of birds to become extinct.
- Unless tiger hunting decreases, tigers will soon be extinct in the wild.
- He also had one volcano that was extinct.
- The simulated mammoths were extinct within decades.
- This kind of animal is in danger of becoming extinct.
- Perhaps dinosaurs could not tolerate these extreme temperature changes and became extinct.
- Whatever the cause, dinosaurs, as well as about half of all species on the planet, went extinct.
- Cases in which many species become extinct within a geologically short interval of time are called mass extinctions.
- Humans have an obligation to try to save endangered animals, because it is our fault that they are going extinct.
- Its tallest volcano, long extinct, is Olympus Mons.
- And he used the extinct volcano as a footstool.
- If these great cats become extinct, the smaller animals they prey upon will overpopulate the forests.
- Meteorite impacts can be advantageous for some species, which thrive, and disastrous for other species, which become extinct.
- It is better for the sake of evolution to allow creatures to go extinct.
- Herbalism had become an all but extinct skill in the Western world.
- The idea of cloning extinct life forms still belongs to science fiction.
- Scientists are attempting to compare features of extinct animals with living analogues.
- If the current trend continues, black farmers in the United States may be extinct by the end of this decade.
- America's national symbol, the bald eagle, almost went extinct twenty years ago, but it has made a comeback.
- It is 250 years since the wolf became extinct in Britain.
- At the current rate of decline, many of the rain forest animals could become extinct in less than 10 years.
- Servants are now almost extinct in modern society.