Sentence examples for basically extinct from inspiring English sources

Knowing what Dutch elm disease and chestnut blight have done to our forests -- chestnuts are basically extinct -- hopefully that doesn't happen with oaks".

"Blocking technology made pop-up ads basically extinct, and I don't think anybody feels pity for them," he says.

Trump steaks are basically extinct now, but I got the next best thing: a steak sandwich from the Trump Grill.

As you can see in the photo above, the LG Gentle also has a T9 keypad, which is basically extinct outside of gimmicky smartphone apps that invite you to relive the pain of agonizingly cycling through clusters of letters to type out basic text messages.

"But I'm really happy to be a part of a film like this, because I think that it's a genre, the epic sort of art house film is something that is basically becoming extinct in our industry.

There are certain faces that are so linked to a specific period in time that when that period ends they basically go extinct.

Alas, Sampras is resigned to serve-and-volley being "pretty much extinct, basically gone," along with the opportunity for young Americans to play to their fast hardcourt strength and create their own tour niche.

"For these numbers to be going down the way they are, it would be a sad thing if one day we were basically quote unquote extinct from this game".

Cloning may eventually give us basically identical genetic copies of extinct species, but we'll be restricted to animals that went extinct more recently and have well-preserved cells with intact nuclei.

Their prediction of a town was based on a geographical theory called "island biogeography": basically, that a species on a large island is much less likely to go extinct following a catastrophic event than a species on a small one.

In skating, a "Hubba" is basically any ledge going down some stairs that also sort of resemble San Francisco's famous and extinct Hubba Hideout.