Sentence examples for were extant from inspiring English sources
adjective
Still in existence.
According to the fossil record, the Nimravidae were extant from about 37 million to 7 million years ago.
Both were extant at the time the first Europeans arrived in Southern Africa, and there is little doubt that the Wilton, which is a typical microlithic assemblage, is to be associated with the modern San (Bushman).
Before that time, only algae were extant.
We thus claim that during the short (approximately 40 min) period that these perturbations were extant, a substorm current wedge existed.
Pterosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago, at around the same time as the extinction of dinosaurs, but when they were extant, the largest of them were "the largest creatures to have flown".
The objective of the study was to identify factors associated with satisfaction in the Indiana University School of Medicine Obstetrics-Gynecology residency program and the residents' and faculty's perception of whether these factors were extant in our program.
Stem pinniped fossils were particularly important for the comparative analyses (disparity analyses were extant-only) because they provide information about the ancestral morphology of the group.
None of Diodorus' writings are extant.
Anonymous 17th-century epithalamiums are extant.
No images of her as a young woman are extant.
