How to Use extant in a Sentence

extant

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  • There are few extant records from that period.
  • The film is set at a time when phone booths are still extant, but this is not a screen-free zone.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
  • So this note of sale is special among the extant scraps from his life.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2020
  • Fossil records show them to be one of the oldest extant breeds.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The adult length of extant species ranges from 8 inches in some species, to over 10 feet in others.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
  • But the entire record of Joan’s trial in 1431 is extant.
    — WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
  • At the same time, the extant network of homeless shelters was phased out.
    — Gordon F. Sander, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The main goal of the mission is to search the Red Planet for signs of life—either extinct or extant.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2020
  • Remarkably, this is the first time hormones have been seen in the extant or the extinct.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
  • The current ocean spike might be an El Niño event on top of extant climate change.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 1 May 2023
  • The blue whale is, at the moment, the largest animal, extant or extinct, known to have lived.
    — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019
  • So far as the extant record shows, Aswell’s reasons were obscure.
    — Colin Asher, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
  • At the same time, though, gentoo penguins, the third-tallest extant species, have been holding their own.
    — Marcia Bjornerud, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2017
  • In fact, the rover isn’t supposed to go near places where extant life-forms have any chance of existing.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
  • It’s claimed that about 70 percent of all Rolls-Royces ever built are still extant.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 5 July 2022
  • So far, a total of nineteen extant and four fossil species of the genus have been described.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Instead, the servers are designed to reduce load-times for extant users.
    — Weston Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Saunders referenced much of the brand’s extant designs for the project.
    — Vogue, 15 Nov. 2019
  • But that flip from present to absent, extant to extinct, is just the endpoint of a long period of loss.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 10 July 2017
  • In fact, the 20 extant species of gibbons are some of the most endangered animals on Earth.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 June 2018
  • Aerodyne on the show lawn was one of only six examples built, of which just four are extant.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2023
  • These days, the world of dynastic wealth — while still extant — is both diminished and changed.
    — Vulture, 27 May 2023
  • Jurassic Park in the sense of creating creatures that are no longer extant.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The original Green Brook, from 1936, is the most elusive of all, with no known extant copies or even images of that edition.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2017
  • There, standing next to a slave cabin extant since the 1840s was Princy Jenkins.
    — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2019
  • As a result, scientists study the mass of all sorts of species, whether extant or extinct, to learn about their lifestyles.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The extant number of Black firsts, rares, onlys, nevers, not yets and not quites attests to that, as does the chronic too manys, too oftens and too soons.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
  • In each of the extant nine accounts, the victim is captured in battle and has an eagle of some sort carved into their back.
    — Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
  • This Mass is, in fact, the oldest extant piece of its type to have been attributed to a single composer.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • It is thought to have evolved before the common ancestor of either extant monotreme.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024

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