unextinct
- a word derived from extinct.
Example Sentences
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Turn that phrase around, and you’ll see that the ability to clone two birds in a lab does not make a species unextinct.
From Slate • Mar. 18, 2013
This war continued to rage more or less violently for several years, frequently slumbering, sometimes breaking out with sudden violence, like the fitful eruptions of the still unextinct volcanoes in those distant, regions.
From Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
His experience had been so wide and varied that he now had only to be shown a bone of fact and almost instantly he visioned in their completeness unextinct ichthyosauri of business.
From Children of the Whirlwind by Scott, Leroy
But it is in the love of unextinct animals that Mr. Hodgson's poetic powers find their most effective display.
From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Phelps, William Lyon
This war continued to rage more or less violently for several years, frequently slumbering, sometimes breaking out with sudden violence, like the fitful eruptions of the still unextinct volcanoes in those distant regions.
From Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
