Sentence examples for are almost extinct from inspiring English sources

Some plant groups, orchids, for example, are almost extinct in the area.

Glaciers are almost extinct: this is the wonder of seeing a living dinosaur.

The project could help resurrect human jobs that are almost extinct.

Public employees, totaling several hundred not long ago, are almost extinct, overtaken in City Hall by private contractors who deliver nearly all of Pontiac's public services.

It may be spectacularly beautiful out here in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, 26 miles from Lake Tahoe, but survival is difficult without black-and-whites and egg creams (although they are almost extinct, even in New York).

Carefully preserved for millennia in the temple gardens of China, ginkgoes are almost extinct in the wild, but they have an extraordinary ability to survive the heat, the snows, the hurricanes, the diesel fumes, and the other charms of New York City, and there are thousands of them here, mature ones bearing a hundred thousand leaves or more — tough, heavy Mesozoic leaves such as the dinosaurs ate.

This antelope is almost extinct".

By the 1950s it was almost extinct.

By the 1970s, feudalism was almost extinct.

It was almost extinct, sightings have been rare.

The Vanishing Tie The tie game is almost extinct.