Sentence examples for were extinct from inspiring English sources
adjective
Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
- Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct.
OWEN: I thought those were extinct.
"I thought these type of strikers were extinct.
By the late nineteenth century British goshawks were extinct.
The study found that 500 species were extinct or missing.
But sooty mangabeys were extinct in the area by then.
They received income from their upper class families, but by 8 May 1945 they were extinct.
Peregrine falcons, on the state's endangered species, were extinct east of the Mississippi by 1960.
Even at that time, two of the species that he described were extinct, including the dodo.
In Britain, goshawks were extinct by the late 19th century, persecuted by humans who saw them as vermin.
Some previously abundant Paleozoic groups were extinct by the Jurassic, and other groups were present but no longer dominant.
Hippos were extinct in northern Africa by 1800 and south of Natal and the Transvaal by 1900.
