How to Use extinction in a Sentence

extinction

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  • Mass extinctions of prehistoric animals are known to have occurred.
  • But, other species remain on the brink of extinction in the U.S. and around the globe.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The species is at a high risk of extinction in the wild, according to the zoo.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2024
  • The process is called de-extinction and CNN 10 has the details.
    — CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • That’s allowed the adorable island fox to bounce back from the brink of extinction.
    — WIRED, 24 Oct. 2022
  • In August, the zoo added a red wolf habitat to help save the species from extinction.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2024
  • However, the species is facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
    — Mallika Kallingal, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
  • With six current members set to leave for the Big 12 and Big Ten, the Pac-12 is suddenly on the verge of extinction.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Only a decade ago, film seemed on its way to extinction.
    — Ted Alcorn Evelyn Freja, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Unless the dams are removed, Smith says, salmon and steelhead face the threat of extinction.
    — Cari Shane, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2022
  • In fact, towns along the Volga River that once thrived because of the caviar trade are collapsing in the wake of the near extinction of the species.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The last extinction event of that magnitude was the one that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
    — Catrin Einhorn, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said that none of the state’s runs are facing extinction.
    — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • For decades, the demand was so high that these fish were harvested to the brink of extinction in Europe.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2023
  • For the first time, scientists have photographed a large, elusive rat that’s on the brink of extinction.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • One study found over half of the 360 living turtle and tortoise species are at risk of extinction.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Together, these forces put the koala at the real risk of extinction.
    — Emily Anthes Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • More than one-third of sharks worldwide are in danger of extinction.
    — Raj Tawney, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
  • At around the same time, volcanic eruptions led to global warming and the extinction of some plant species.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
  • In the late 1800s, great egrets were hunted nearly to extinction because their plumes were prized for ladies’ hats.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But neither of them ever expected to see a whale on the brink of extinction.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • Anže Peržin, Gaëlle Boucand) — Evolution and extinction from the point of view of rocks.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2022
  • So far, the team has offered a series of grainy videos and pictures to Fish and Wildlife to try to stave off an extinction verdict.
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2022
  • So just like that, because of a single wedding present an entire species was pushed to the brink of extinction.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
  • If only the world could hear these sounds, Payne reasoned, the humpback whale might just be saved from extinction.
    — Time, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The world has been stripped of life, the soil poisoned, all animals driven to extinction.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
  • For the last four decades, the zoo has been working to bring California condors back from the brink of extinction.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The birth is a big deal for a number of reasons, including that bison were once on the brink of extinction.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This was a factor in the near extinction of grizzlies in the lower 48 states and is a factor in human resistance to their presence.
    — Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Depending on the scale of use of nuclear weapons, there is the potential for the destruction of entire ecosystems and extinction of species.
    — Zia Mian, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2024

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