Sentence examples for avoided extinction from inspiring English sources

Some ventured farther out, postulating a global Roman Empire or a world in which dinosaurs avoided extinction.

The American Folk Art Museum barely avoided extinction last year when it was forced to sell its ill-suited building on West 53rd Street in Manhattan and retreat to its much smaller branch space at 2 Lincoln Square.

Hawaii became the extinction capital of the world; all but a few species of land birds disappeared or diminished to tiny numbers, and many seabirds avoided extinction only by flying to other islands.

A moderate group of the Khārijites, the Ibāḍīs, avoided extinction, and its members are to be found today in North Africa and in Oman and in parts of East Africa, including the island of Zanzibar.

There's no bird here who says, 'I won't breed here, because it's unnatural — it's four and a half metres below sea level, and I never did that.' " We drove on, and stopped to take a look at the nest built by the white-tailed eagles, another animal that only very narrowly avoided extinction.

The club was saved - almost 11 years to the day since they avoided extinction the first time.

The Cubs won, 3 2, avoiding extinction, and there will be more baseball.

Nor is there anything to justify the commission of crimes to avoid extinction.

The green technologies that we need to avoid extinction will almost certainly be nurtured in cities.

The benefit of PCD is expressed in terms of avoiding extinction.

But they are also willing to dilute the product to achieve the aim of avoiding extinction.