Sentence examples for given up for extinct from inspiring English sources

Mentions some more examples of birds which appeared after given up for extinct.

It was given up for extinct some 60 years ago, then rediscovered in a traffic island in 2009 by a botanist driving home from a climate-change conference.

It seemed a gift to the plaintiffs when, shortly before they sued, a professor at Auburn University said he had spotted ivory-billed woodpeckers, a magnificent bird long given up for extinct until reports of sightings in Arkansas in 2005, while kayaking on the Choctawhatchee River, perhaps 20 miles from the new airport site.

ESCAPES, PAGE F1 Back From the Dead The ivory-billed woodpecker, whose 30-inch wingspan and stunning plumage once moved people to call it the Lord God bird (because that's what they said when they saw it), had long been given up for extinct.

A flourishing member of a precious and nearly extinct species has been sighted on Broadway, looking remarkably vital and sure of itself for a creature so often given up for dead.

What have you given up for Twitter?

Amid stories of loss, I found myself increasingly interested in an emerging phenomenon that provided a glimmer of hope: the reappearance of frogs that had been given up as extinct.

Exhausted, we gave up for the day.

I'm giving up giving up for Lent.

"Have given up surgery for the past four years".

Thank you, Toni, for not giving up.