Sentence examples for was virtually extinct from inspiring English sources

As recently as the late 1960s, viognier was virtually extinct, with only a handful of hectares left in Condrieu.

The program has the format of a variety show, a creature that was virtually extinct decades ago, even before cable and the Internet.

By the early 20th century, Chinook Jargon was virtually extinct in the United States (with the exception of a few words used locally as slang), but it survived a few decades longer in British Columbia.

These include the most common of international grapes, like cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay, to one-shot oddities, like limniona, a Greek red that, the book says, was virtually extinct until a single grower rescued it.

The scimitar-horned oryx, once found throughout northern Africa, was restricted to the southern rim of the Sahara (the Sahel) by the early 1980s and was virtually extinct in the wild by the century's end.

By World War II, it was virtually extinct (although government-run prison workshops continued as they always had).

Now illegal squats are virtually extinct.

The gallery correspondent is virtually extinct.

One type of vehicle that is virtually extinct is the caboose, or brake-van.

Much has been made of the fact that the phone booth is virtually extinct in New York.

Mars has no atmospheric poll-ution, and its volcanoes are virtually extinct.