Sentence examples for were hunted to from inspiring English sources
Following the arrival of humans, Moa were hunted to extinction by 1445.
It's where they've re-released beavers that were hunted to extinction 400 years ago.
Right whales, which were hunted to near extinction over five centuries, number perhaps 350.
These splendid animals were hunted to extinction several hundred years ago.
About 400 years ago, beavers (Castor fiber) in the U.K. were hunted to extinction.
Once numbering in the thousands in the North Atlantic, right whales were hunted to near extinction in the 19th century.
Gray wolves once ranged across much of the United States but were hunted to near-extinction in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Once regarded as a menace, wolves were hunted to extirpation in the Northern Rockies in the mid 20th century, but were reintroduced by federal biologists in 1994.
Some 400 years after they were hunted to extinction in Britain for their fur and medicinal oils, beavers are to live in the wild again.
(Beavers were native to these isles until they were hunted to extinction a few centuries ago and have now been reintroduced in two areas in Scotland).
David Craine states, "those who did not fall in the fighting [were] hunted to their death through the countryside".
