Sentence examples for border of extinction from inspiring English sources
Remember that antiquated art on the border of extinction?
On the edge of extinction, she blazes.
Piaggi was not only Lagerfeld's former muse but the elder stateswoman of the eccentric peacock elite – a rare breed of female exhibitionists, bordering on extinction with an indefinable but integral role within the fashion industry.
According to the molecular clock revealed by whole genome sequencing of Phalaenopsis equestris (Cai et al. 2015), the emergence of orchids have occurred in the late Cretaceous (76 Mya), and allowed them to cross the border of Jurassic mass extinction (66 Mya).
South of the border, in short, the gled is on the brink of extinction – "regularly trodden underfoot / in the interests of gamebirds", as Colin Simms writes in one of the 270 poems about hen harriers gathered in this remarkable collection.
It should thus be possible to identify which species are at risk of extinction within any given country's borders.
Once common, polecats were persecuted to the brink of extinction and confined to mid-Wales and the Welsh borders by the end of the 19th century.
"Eileen Foti: Images of Extinction".
Rates of extinction are selective.
Transformers: Age of Extinction, £19.56m 15.
