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

The Romantic worship of art, having lost its purpose, heads towards self-extinction.

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

I have not been a particularly ideal sort of beast so far, you know: but in me, Adam Jeffson—I swear it—the human race shall at last attain a true nobility, the nobility of self-extinction.

From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)