How to use "extinct" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "extinct" in popular movie and book plots

  • Vice President Baltar provides a calculation that at the current rate humanity will become extinct in 18 years.  - The Captain's Hand
  • They match the photo with a drawing of a Pteranodon, an ancient reptile thought to be extinct millions of years earlier.  - Rodan (film)
  • They have traveled through deep underwater caverns and have surfaced in the cauldron of an extinct volcano.  - Creation (unfinished film)
  • Elsewhere life is extinct except for some evidence of biological activity in the Himalayan mountains.  - A World Out of Time
  • Other things that disappear from the outside world, like extinct animals, lost tools, and architecture, also became abundant in Gensokyo.  - Touhou Project
  • The Dwarves are sent to dig in mines, and will soon be extinct because of the Federation's wickedness.  - The Scions of Shannara
  • This an allusion to the great auk, which is a flightless seabird that became extinct in the mid-19th century.  - October Sky (novel)
  • In time, the Battle Dolls come to believe they were the real Mibu, and that the real Mibu eventually became extinct due to in-fighting.  - Samurai Deeper Kyo
  • Kirk and Chapel find the doctor living in an underground complex of caves, left by an extinct race who once lived on Exo III.  - What Are Little Girls Made Of?
  • offers wealthy adventurers the chance to travel back in time to hunt extinct species such as dinosaurs.  - A Sound of Thunder
  • Later, as Phlox plans to destroy the last vial of the virus, Archer tells him to keep it as a legacy of the now extinct species.  - Extinction (Star Trek: Enterprise)
  • But the aliens became extinct before completing their work.  - Quatermass and the Pit
  • In the end, after easily dealing with the insurrection, Satan decides he need not worry, as humans will soon be extinct anyway.  - Old Harry's Game
  • Dixie and Kiddy uncover the extinct volcanic island of Krematoa.  - Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
  • Two thousand years later, humans are extinct and Manhattan is buried under glacial ice.  - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • On his deathbed, the King of Fynn tasks the party to seek the help of the seemingly extinct dragoons of Deist.  - Final Fantasy II

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