Sentence examples for is virtually extinct from inspiring English sources
The gallery correspondent is virtually extinct.
Much has been made of the fact that the phone booth is virtually extinct in New York.
Set in a dystopian version of Britain, where wildlife is virtually extinct and where food is desperately short, it sees Kester discover that he can talk with animals.
"That such debate is virtually extinct speaks badly for the state of not just film culture, but also American culture in general".
The cut-glass English accent is virtually extinct, "innit" Estuary English far more fashionable — even the likes of George Osborne, the tony chancellor of the Exchequer, visits hoi polloi in factories and starts dropping his H's.
The jaguar is virtually extinct in the northern part of its original range and survives in reduced numbers only in remote areas of Central and South America; the largest known population exists in the Amazon rainforest.
Now illegal squats are virtually extinct.
Mars has no atmospheric poll-ution, and its volcanoes are virtually extinct.
A giant whooping crane or two, which was not so long ago believed to be virtually extinct.
As recently as the late 1960s, viognier was virtually extinct, with only a handful of hectares left in Condrieu.
"If it weren't for people doing the classical crossover stuff -- like Andrea Bocelli, Enya and me -- then classical music in a couple years' time would be virtually extinct".
