Sentence examples for essentially extinct in the from inspiring English sources
He has spent most of the past four years compiling a list of endangered plants and animals that were once fairly commonplace in American kitchens but are now threatened, endangered or essentially extinct in the marketplace.
By 1960, the Gros Michel was essentially extinct and the banana industry nearly bankrupt.
"Five large mammal species – tapirs, giant anteaters, jaguar, wooly spider monkeys and white-lipped peccaries — are essentially extinct throughout the whole region," said Carlos Peres, an ecologist at the University of East Anglia in Britain and one of the study's authors.
In March Canberra's Australian National University launched the Austkin database of Indigenous kinship terms and skin names, which seeks to preserve those still heard every day in communities, as well as create a database of terms in languages which are essentially extinct except for mentions in historical archives.
Conch and lobster fisheries on coral reefs in the southern Gulf of Mexico are essentially extinct commercially because of overharvesting and lack of regulations or enforcement of regulations [123].
By the mid-1980s, both Sound Sales and Streetly Electronics suffered severe financial setbacks, losing their market to synthesizers and solid-state electronic samplers, which rendered the Mellotron essentially extinct.
The first time I ever heard the word "content" used in its current context, I understood that all my artist friends and I — henceforth, "content providers" — were essentially extinct.
A further 875 species are considered extinct including 66 that are extinct in the wild.
