Sentence examples for went extinct from inspiring English sources

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went unaccounted

went defunct

disappeared extinct

went lost

went gone

"went extinct" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a species or organism that has died out and is no longer in existence. For example, "The dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago."

Exact(60)

They apparently went extinct.

Cornell University

Hundreds of species went extinct.

The Washington Post

How many Native American languages went extinct?

Stanford University

It probably went extinct for a reason.

The Guardian

Then nature's most charismatic animals went extinct.

The New Yorker

Not all the dinosaurs went extinct; theropod dinosaurs survived.

Yale University

It went extinct about 10,000 years ago.

University of California, Berkeley

However, the entire lineage went extinct 245 million years ago.

University of California, Berkeley

Populations went extinct less often and abundances were higher in continuous landscapes.

Ecological Modelling

Moleskines went extinct, driven out by cheaper, mass-produced notebooks.

The New Yorker

Significantly more secondary forest populations went extinct than old-growth forest populations.

Forest Ecology and Management

More suggestions(2)

go extinct

went missing

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