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Example sentences for "extinction"

Lexicographically close words:
externally; externals; externus; exterritoriality; extinct; extinctions; extinguish; extinguished; extinguisher; extinguishers
  1. Before extinction can happen a certain amount of wealth in railway property must absolutely disappear.

  2. They find but one solution for the awful enigma presented by Christ's abandonment of the Church and mankind, by the extinction of appointed sacraments and means of grace, and by the impious rupture of the tie between man and God.

  3. This is the reason for the extinction of the priesthood, of marriage and of the family.

  4. And he is equally positive that the gradual diminution and final extinction of the syphilitic reaction of the parents upon the children is a veritable pathological law, "absolutely demonstrated.

  5. We should count it no gain to us, however--the extinction of this old and venerable faith--if we had no high and certain assurance that a nobler and sublimer religion was reserved for our consolation and guidance.

  6. Geological evidence points to their sudden extinction before the close of the Eocene period; but it is difficult to understand this.

  7. To such a question we can only answer that the causes of the extinction of plants and animals in the past are not yet known.

  8. Apteryx, and also because of the close analogy which the event indicated by the present relic offers to the extinction of the Dodo in the island of Mauritius.

  9. He concludes that this period marks the extinction of the Great Deer in Ireland, whether rightly or wrongly it is hard to say.

  10. The problem of the extinction of the Mammoth is not an easy one to solve.

  11. That the Jaredites occupied the land for about eighteen hundred and fifty years, during which time they spread over a great part of North and South America; and that at about the time of their extinction (near 590 B.

  12. Then followed successive invasions of Slavs from the north; and lastly, the domination of the Turk well-nigh completed the extinction of the old aristocracy.

  13. Secondly, there is a circle of peoples whose ideas are thrown into the arena of rivalry, to suffer extinction or to gain universal acceptance.

  14. In fact, the fortunes of the "Castle" as an inn ebbed and flowed alarmingly even before the coaching age and coaching inns were threatened with extinction by railways.

  15. The event, however, which most directly tended to the establishment of an English royalty in Ireland, was the depression of the family of Kildare in the beginning of this reign, and its all but extinction a few years later.

  16. The utter extinction of that city is remarkable--the very name disappearing from the Bible after Micah, B.

  17. Of course we shall never know what narrow escapes our race had from extinction in the remote past; some forms have ended in a blind alley, like the sea-urchin and the oyster.

  18. This was the extinction of Bruhl's power.

  19. It is furthermore evident that the causes which lead to the decline and extinction of any population, whether civilized or uncivilized, are complex.

  20. The view of some students of the negro problem that the negro is destined to an early extinction in this country is merely a speculative hypothesis, and as yet is not substantiated by any statistical facts.

  21. All efforts to explain the extinction of peoples of antiquity, or modern nature peoples, such as the North American Indians and the Polynesians, through any single set of causes, must be looked at as unscientific.

  22. It can readily be shown that in all these cases the causes of the decline of the birth rate and the ultimate extinction of the stock are numerous and are not reducible to any single set of causes.

  23. Having thus explained the rise, progress, and extinction of the rebellion, it will be necessary to take a retrospective view of the proceedings in parliament.

  24. Civil war, the spoils of Asia, and the fatal predominance, first of the Macedonian, and then of the Roman arms, were so many symbols of the extinction or suspension of the creative faculty in Greece.

  25. Whatever of evil their agencies may have contained sprang from the extinction of the poetical principle, connected with the progress of despotism and superstition.

  26. Each in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the other.

  27. So in a general way it may be said that much of what at the first glance we might term extinction is really the replacement of one set of animals by another better adapted to surrounding conditions.

  28. The two probably developed side by side until their present state of inter-dependence was reached, when the extinction of the one would probably bring about that of the other.

  29. Contemporary with the great-toothed shark was another and closely related species that originated with him in Eocene times, and these two may possibly have had something to do with the extinction of Zeuglodon.

  30. And this seems to have been the cause for the extinction of the huge quadrupeds that flourished at the time of the three-toed Miocene horse.

  31. Bourne (1967) suggested that Polynesians in pre-European times may have caused the extinction of numerous petrels in the Chatham Islands.

  32. However, reduction in numbers and range rather than extinction was the rule, except locally.

  33. Jehl (1972) attributed the extinction of the Guadalupe petrel to predation by cats, in combination with the destruction of vegetation by goats.

  34. Traditions of exploitation of marine birds by fishermen date from previous centuries, and fishing has contributed to the extinction of some species.

  35. In spite of these adaptations, arctic bird species tread a thin line between extinction and survival, and natural disasters take a heavy toll.

  36. Upon the extinction of the Croatian dynasty in 1102, Salona rapidly declined, and when the Turks appeared in the sixteenth century it became a neglected ruin.

  37. Cattaro appears to have been a republic till the thirteenth century, when it came under the protection of Servia, and so continued till the extinction of the dynasty of the Nemagna.

  38. Not content with barely doing justice to those who had deserved and suffered so much, the King granted to Lady Isabel Neville the manor of Waverly, which had escheated to the crown by the extinction of that ill-fated family.

  39. A fief, when it lapsed for want of heirs, was reattached to the Crown; and in the turmoil and adventure of those unsettled times the extinction of a line of warriors and pilgrims was not an uncommon event.

  40. Increasing self-consciousness of the nations on account of having a share in government and legislation; extinction of the belief in the divine right of rulers.

  41. Moreover, it is well known that various drinks have a considerable influence on consciousness (coffee and tea, beer and wine); and the temporary extinction of it under chloroform or ether is an analogous fact.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extinction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abolition; amputation; annihilation; annulment; bane; blackout; choking; curtains; death; decease; demise; departure; destruction; dispersion; dissipation; dissolution; doom; dousing; dying; eclipse; elimination; end; ending; erasure; evaporation; excision; exclusion; exit; expiration; extermination; extinction; fading; going; grave; holocaust; knell; liquidation; loss; melting; mutilation; negation; nullification; oblivion; occultation; parting; passing; purge; quietus; release; repression; rest; reward; sleep; strangulation; suffocation; suppression; vanishing; wipe