Example Sentences

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Before Castle Bravo, almost no one worried about near-term self-extinction.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023

Long before — spoiler ahead! — shots get fired, the play’s quartet of aspirational Americans have gone down the path of spiritual self-extinction.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2010

For struggling schools unwilling to contemplate self-extinction, slow starvation is the common alternative.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few members of the species have worked harder toward self-extinction than Sir Hugh, who spent 30 years in the colonial service and was Britain's last Governor General in Cyprus before independence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ingres must choose between Italy and Paris; in other words, so the artist interpreted it, between art and marriage, a proud destiny or self-extinction.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda