Sentence examples for be long extinct from inspiring English sources

The comedy of manners, a theatrical form widely believed to be long extinct in the American theater, has actually resurfaced on Broadway with all its vital signs intact.

The Santee campaign, in 1971, centered on Sanders's contention that he had heard the call of the ivory-billed woodpecker, a species widely assumed to be long extinct.

In the fullness of galactic time, the Voyagers may be found, but by then the human race may be long extinct.

In the Chaco there is a small reserve of Chacoan peccaries, thought by scientists to be long extinct until the early 1970s, when living representatives of the species were discovered.

The object of this quest, headed by Dr. David C. Oren, an American ornithologist employed by the Brazilian Government, is an animal Dr. Oren believes to be a human-size ground sloth, belonging to a family thought by paleontologists to be long extinct.

In contrast, The Washington Post critic Allison Stewart was unfavorable of the lyrical content of the song, commenting that it was "the sort of exercise in teenage co-dependence...that should be long extinct".

That business is long extinct in the north and threatened in the south.

But the unicellular ancestor of animals and those first animals are long extinct.

All of the species that we consider dinosaurs are long extinct, and plenty of lineages went extinct, too.

While the early ancestors of animals are long extinct, several multicellular eukaryotes still have a unicellular feeding stage, simplifying identification of genes that uniquely regulate multicellular development.

Because the signal processing systems of protists have been little investigated and the early multicellular forms are long extinct, the early stages in the evolution of multicellularity are not understood.