Sentence Examples

1. Edmond waited till life seemed extinct in the body of his friend, then, taking up the knife, he with difficulty forced open the closely fixed jaws, carefully administered the appointed number of drops, and anxiously awaited the result.
2. I planted about two acres and a half of upland and as it was only about fifteen years since the land was cleared, and I myself had got out two or three cords of stumps, I did not give it any manure but in the course of the summer it appeared by the arrowheads which I turned up in hoeing, that an extinct nation had anciently dwelt here and planted corn and beans ere white men came to clear the land, and so, to some extent, had exhausted the soil for this very crop.
3. After the Sage Wars they were believed to be extinct.
4. The little light in the lodge had long been extinct.
5. But before the Ultiori existed, we were in true peril of rendering ourselves practically extinct.
6. It was evident that the fiery temper of the Baskervilles was not extinct in this their last representative.
7. I recognised by the oblique feet that it was some extinct creature after the fashion of the Megatherium.
8. What course was taken to supply that assembly when any noble family became extinct.
9. Nairobi is located near the Great Rift Valley and between the extinct volcanoes of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya.
10. The green slime on the rocks alone testified that life was not extinct.