Sentence examples for were nearly extinct from inspiring English sources

By the 1930s, wolves were nearly extinct as a result of traps and poisons.

Fifteen years ago, the rituals of sauna baths and cod drying were nearly extinct in many communities with once-heavy Nordic populations.

The cormorants were nearly extinct on the Great Lakes in the 1950's, depleted by the combined effects of shooting, DDT and pollution.

By the mid-1890s, toanks to demand for their meat, skins and bones by Native Americans and white men alike, they were nearly extinct.

This is why I decided it was urgent to revisit this culinary history and rediscover these products, many of which were nearly extinct".

A relatively recent addition to Westchester wildlife, bald eagles were nearly extinct in New York State several decades ago, according to Tom Lake, an estuary naturalist with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

The diffusion region is nearly extinct again.

populations are nearly extinct in the wild (South America).

Are human beings the reason this animal is nearly extinct?

After the last hunt, the bear population was nearly extinct.

The pure red wolf is believed to be nearly extinct.