EXTINCT in a Sentence

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The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXTINCT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
extinct
 a.  no longer existing or living; vanished; dead
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even noticing that it was no longer in its place.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
2  There is a point where depth is tantamount to burial, and where light becomes extinct.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
3  The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
4  If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
5  Cosette was the only scion of an extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of the other Fauchelevent.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
6  On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
7  His love, which he believed to be extinct but which was only asleep, awoke again in his heart.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE
8  Occasionally, by the light of a flash of lightning which gleamed along the horizon, the road stretched itself before them, white and solitary; the flash extinct, all remained in darkness.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
9  He was one of a class rapidly becoming extinct in Wessex, filling at present in the rural world the place which, during the last century, the dodo occupied in the world of animals.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
10  Unhappily, that expectation was now extinct within her for ever.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
11  It was a practice well known on Egdon at that date, and one that is not quite extinct at the present day.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
12  Clym hastily put together the logs on the hearth, raked abroad the embers, which were scarcely yet extinct, and blew up a flame with the bellows.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
13  It was evident that the fiery temper of the Baskervilles was not extinct in this their last representative.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
14  I recognized by the oblique feet that it was some extinct creature after the fashion of the Megatherium.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
15  The green slime on the rocks alone testified that life was not extinct.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
Example Sentence:
1  There is concern that the giant panda will soon become extinct.
2  If we continue to destroy the countryside many more animals will become extinct.
3  Scientists are attempting to compare features of extinct animals with living analogues.
4  The species was presumed extinct.
5  There are about 35 different kinds of extinct kangaroos in these deposits, none of them looked like anything we know today because they didn't hop.
6  I'm not sure which is more implausible, the notion that people would ever get blasé about a 40-foot-high, formerly extinct reptile or that a theme park would try to boost its revenue in such a wildly risky way.
7  Modern farming methods have led to the total extinction of many species of wild flowers.
8  Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
9  An operation is beginning to try to save a species of crocodile from extinction.
10  The plant is now in danger of extinction.
11  Many species are doomed to extinction.
12  Hundreds of tree species face extinction.
13  The society was set up to preserve endangered species from extinction.
14  Almost a quarter of the world's mammals face extinction within thirty years, according to a United Nations report on the state of the global environment.
15  Hence an important means towards happiness is the control of our desires, and the extinction of those that we cannot gratify, which is brought about by virtue.