Sentence examples for they were extinct from inspiring English sources
They received income from their upper class families, but by 8 May 1945 they were extinct.
Once, pine martens were found all over Britain, but in the 18th and 19th centuries they were largely wiped out because of the rise of the great shooting estates: gamekeepers killed them anywhere and everywhere that they found them, and by the start of the 20th century they were extinct in most of England and Wales and even in much of Scotland.
By 27,000 years ago they were extinct.
"I knew they were extinct and everything," he said.
"There were some political consultants, especially the establishment's favorites, who didn't know they were extinct," Neugebauer said.
As a result, they were extinct in the areas around Adelaide by the 1920s, and in the Eyre Peninsula around the 1970s.
"They're just going to die a slow and painful death until they're extinct".
"It's a good thing they're extinct, otherwise they eat you".
They're extinct, beaten into submission by the wet, limp, chinless world of modern cinema.
Their DNA lives on in us even though they are extinct.
