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How to use extinction in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Extinction means the action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation. Example: “It is believed that a cataclysmic impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.”

Examples of extinction by meaning

nounThe action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.

  • 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.1951 November, David R. Webb, “The Drummond 4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 773
  • The extinction of a species once so numerous seemed incredible.1955, A. W. Schorger, The Passenger Pigeon: Its Natural History and Extinction, →ISBN, page vii
  • Our extinction is inevitable.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime

More sentences with extinction

  • It is believed that a cataclysmic impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.From the entry cataclysmic
  • Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction.From the entry martyr
  • There is evidence of mass extinctions in the distant past.From the entry mass
  • A large meteorite impact would cause worldwide extinction of life.From the entry worldwide
  • "The extinction of these languages is also a result of intermarriage.2024 March 8, Antara, “11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry”, in Jakarta Globe, archived from the original on 13…. From the entry intermarriage
  • He scoffs at his peers’ dystopian scenarios of supercharged misinformation and even, eventually, human extinction.2023 December 22, Steven Levy, “How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry dystopian
  • They are hundreds of thousands of years old and are plodding towards extinction.2022, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sort Of Books, page 302. From the entry pangolin
  • High-heeled shoes were at the point of flatlining, industry pundits fretted, teetering on the edge of extinction.2021 June 13, Ruth La Ferla, “High heels are ready to stomp out crocs”, in Philadelphia Tribune, page 3B. From the entry sutorial
  • Ecologists say the months of intense and unprecedented fires will almost certainly push several species to extinction.2020 January 3, Graham Readfearn, “‘Silent death’: Australia's bushfires push countless species to extinction”, in The Guardian. From the entry ecologist
  • The Endangered Species Act is our greatest safeguard against extinction, and it's under attack right now.2019 October 12, Andrew Fortin-Caldera, “LA Zoo Urges Support for Endangered Species with Cute Animal Pics”, in NBC Los Angeles. From the entry blep
  • Three of the great extinctions appear to have occurred during cold episodes and two during hot episodes.2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry episode
  • T'Soni: Once an extinction is confirmed, the study's nature moves from sociology to exo-archaeology.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Audio Excerpt, Ark Hyperion. From the entry exoarchaeology
  • King was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction.2014 January 20, Michael Daly, “The Black and White Men Who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the…. From the entry life-saving
  • The mbunas have suffered such local extinctions for a number of reasons.2014, Steve Donda, Fragmentation of Resource Management on the South East Arm of Lake Malawi: Dynamics Around Fisheries. From the entry mbuna
  • Joab is a two-mooned habitable planet that is most well known for its mass extinction event.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Joab. From the entry mass extinction event
  • Coastal languages were usually the first to go, with settlement patterns matching patterns of extinction.2000, Juliette Blevins, Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia (Oceanic linguistics special publication; 30), Honolulu…. From the entry ghost language
  • The klipdachs (hierax) and the klipspringer (Oreotragus saltatrix) are the prevalent population, now however threatened with extinction.1971, Karl Mauch, F. O. Bernhard, Karl Mauch: African Explorer, page 153. From the entry klipdachs
  • Better weakly to bleed to death than to melt to extinction week by week.1926 July 22, “The Crow’s-Nest”, in The Royal Gazette and Colonist Daily, volume 6, number 172, Hamilton, Bermuda, →OCLC, page 3. From the entry asinicide
  • The recent end-Permian mass extinction struck as chroniosuchians were beginning to diversify, and it has nipped them in the bud.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 164. From the entry chroniosuchian
  • “I mean, if we avoid the mass extinction event, we avoid everything dying, great, that’s utopia, given where we are now.”2022 May 11, Alexandra Alter, quoting Kim Stanley Robinson, “A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’”, in…. From the entry mass extinction event
  • Kunze simply inhabits a longer view of history, one in which humans are the dinosaurs, facing down a probable extinction.2020 December 31, Lauren Jackson, “News That Can Last a Million Years”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry doomsayer
  • The beaver was hunted to extinction in Britain more than three centuries ago, but is today the rewilding movement’s pin-up.2020 October 13, Patrick Barkham, “How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry rewilding
  • Seed-banking offers a crucial, last-hope insurance policy against extinction.2020 January 29, Emily Underwood, “A New Phacelia Hidden in Plain Sight”, in Flora Magazine. From the entry seed banking
  • In the 10 million years after the mass extinction, the first perissodactyls emerged from the confused wastebasket of animals called condylarths.2018 March 7, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian. From the entry condylarth
  • They closely resemble the famed American Clovis points, which are associated with large mammal extinctions across the North American continent.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 219. From the entry Clovis point
  • Convincing a judge that your opponents' arguments would cause human extinction is equivalent to a successful Hail Mary pass.2017 September 26, Jack McCordick, “The Corrosion of High School Debate—And How It Mirrors American Politics”, in America, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry spread
  • However, 8 of them are in danger of extinction.2016 February 19, Ahmad Ibrahim, “How to Kill a Language”, in The Daily Star. From the entry Bengali
  • Any substantial company that doesn't take advantage of its own geopbytes of available data is in danger of eventual extinction.2015, Jenny Dearborn, Data Driven, page 41. From the entry geopbyte
  • Already, Griffith has observed several amphibian extinctions.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 1, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company. From the entry herpetologist
  • The endangered species of polymaths is facing extinction.2014, “About the Book”, in Newton Lee, editor, Digital Da Vinci: Computers in Music, Springer, page vii. From the entry endangered species
  • The Tertiary is the lead-up to the extinction event that will take centre stage in later chapters: the megafauna extinctions.2013, Steve Webb, Corridors to Extinction and the Australian Megafauna, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry lead-up
  • They are all now forgotten: the law of extinction seems to apply as ruthlessly to sects as it does to species.2011, Robin Fox, The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind, page 97. From the entry Wilkinsonian
  • Politics pines for "big beasts" returning from the tar pits of extinction as a consoling presence on the frontbenches.2009 January 23, Simon Jenkins, “Old is new. Even Gutenberg's ghost has returned to live in Silicon Valley”, in The Guardian. From the entry frontbenches
  • This impressive mammal seemed on the verge of extinction, a victim of enlightenment and manners and corporate groupspeak.2008 April 25, George Vecsey, “Where Wild Things Are, Again”, in New York Times. From the entry groupspeak
  • Since hybridization with the ruddy duck could lead to extinction of the white-headed duck, Spain began to kill its ruddy ducks.2008, Roslyn M. Frank, Body, Language, and Mind: Sociocultural situatedness, volume 2, page 170. From the entry ruddy duck
  • Though the causes and interactions remain incompletely understood, study of extinctions does show that life on Earth is fragile.2006, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, The Earth and the Moon, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry supereruption
  • A list of the five largest extinctions in Earth history is given in the table on page 1 08 .2006, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, The Earth and the Moon, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry supereruption

Meaning of extinction

  1. noun The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
  2. noun The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
  3. noun The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously.

Full definition of extinction

Questions about extinction in a sentence

How do you use extinction in a sentence?
Extinction is used as a noun. For example: “It is believed that a cataclysmic impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.”
What is a short sentence with extinction?
“Our extinction is inevitable.”
What does extinction mean?
Extinction means the action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.

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