EXTINCTION in a Sentence

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49 example sentences for EXTINCTION, such as:

1. The species was presumed extinct.
2. Many species are doomed to extinction.
3. Hundreds of tree species face extinction.
4. The plant is now in danger of extinction.
5. After that last flash of light, complete extinction ensued.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXTINCTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
extinction
 n.  death of all its remaining members
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
2  The moon and stars were closed up by cloud and rain to the degree of extinction.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
3  Your memoirs will draw to an end, Watson, upon the day that I crown my career by the capture or extinction of the most dangerous and capable criminal in Europe.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
4  Indeed, I found afterwards that horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, had followed the Ichthyosaurus into extinction.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  At last, some time before I stopped, the sun, red and very large, halted motionless upon the horizon, a vast dome glowing with a dull heat, and now and then suffering a momentary extinction.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
6  The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within him had suffered extinction.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
7  He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
8  The room was dark, large clouds had just finished the extinction of daylight.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
9  After that last flash of light, complete extinction ensued.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET
10  I did not pretend to enter into the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opinions of the hero, whose extinction I wept, without precisely understanding it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
11  His voice was solemn as if the memory of that sudden extinction of a clan still haunted him.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  The sudden extinction of the moccoletti, the darkness which had replaced the light, and the silence which had succeeded the turmoil, had left in Franz's mind a certain depression which was not free from uneasiness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence:
1  Modern farming methods have led to the total extinction of many species of wild flowers.
2  Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
3  An operation is beginning to try to save a species of crocodile from extinction.
4  The plant is now in danger of extinction.
5  Many species are doomed to extinction.
6  Hundreds of tree species face extinction.
7  The society was set up to preserve endangered species from extinction.
8  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.
9  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.
10  There is concern that the giant panda will soon become extinct.
11  If we continue to destroy the countryside many more animals will become extinct.
12  Scientists are attempting to compare features of extinct animals with living analogues.
13  The species was presumed extinct.
14  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.
15  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.