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"Extinction" in a Sentence (17 examples)
The Siberian tiger is on the verge of extinction.
There are many theories about the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs, but the real cause still remains anyone's guess.
Some wild animals are on the verge of extinction.
Extinction is part of evolution.
Many fragile species are on the verge of extinction.
Many species of insects are on the verge of extinction.
Global climatic changes may have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
They are in danger of extinction.
Due to total Russification in Belarus, the Belarusian language is on the brink of extinction.
Imogen of the Internet has created a seminal classification of thirty distinct varieties of chatspeak, some now facing linguistic extinction.
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Thirteen long centuries have elapsed since the extinction of the last Zoroastrian Empire[…]
Their lives were short; all were condemned by the early 1930s, presumably because, like most classes of G.S.W.R. engines, their small numbers invited extinction under any comprehensive programme of standardisation.
The extinction of a species once so numerous seemed incredible.
Dr. Manuel: You're wasting your time. The age of humanity is over. Our extinction is inevitable.
Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
On the East and West Coast Main Lines in the 1950s/60s, for example, we saw the extinction of intermediate stations in order to create the same sort of accelerations that IRP is now promising. Back then, the priority was faster main line services, with wayside/intermediate stations paying the ultimate price.
In Perthshire, the Aberdeenshire catchments of Deeside and Donside, in Moray and Nairnshire to the north-east, the populations are in low single figures, putting them on the brink of local extinction.
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