How to Use endangered in a Sentence
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There haven't been any sites removed from the endangered list this time around.
— Francesca Street, CNN, 28 July 2021 -
Closing off the swimway to fishing fleets could help protect endangered hammerhead sharks.
— Nell Lewis, CNN, 13 July 2021 -
Here are four endangered skills that need our urgent and continued attention.
— Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 -
This is the second time Louisiana has been able to take an endangered species and bring it to the point that it can be hunted safely.
— Jacob Mathews | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Dec. 2024 -
This unique area, known for its rare and endangered plant species, is essential for global biodiversity.
— Simon Perry, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024 -
The species is considered one of North America’s most endangered.
— From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021 -
So a generation of the rare and endangered winter-run Chinook, and the spring-run as well, are virtually gone.
— Star Tribune, 27 July 2021 -
Environmental experts say the move essentially abandons the world's most endangered marine mammal to the gill nets that trap and drown them.
— Mark Stevenson, Star Tribune, 14 July 2021 -
Neglect of an endangered adult occurs when that adult or their caregiver does not provide food, clothing, shelter or necessary medical care.
— Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 16 July 2021 -
The pièce de resistance is a 36-foot, 7-ton octopus weaving its tentacles around endangered species like rhinos and zebras.
— David Hochman, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024 -
Maine is home to the last wild Atlantic salmon populations in the U.S., but a new push to protect the fish at the state level is unlikely to land them on the endangered list.
— From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 July 2021 -
The lake is a major supplier of water to the Klamath Tribes and home to the endangered and culturally significant sucker fish.
— Celina Tebor, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021 -
The search leads him to El Negro, a vet who asks him to join in the rescue of an endangered jaguar.
— John Hopewell, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023 -
In 2007, the bald eagle was removed from the list of threatened and endangered species.
— Sydney Page, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024 -
The Mexican gray wolf is the most endangered subspecies of wolf in the world.
— Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022 -
Among those moved to the endangered list: the country’s iconic koala.
— New York Times, 19 July 2022 -
Astute birders have a chance to spot rare and endangered birds at the refuge.
— Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022 -
For two weeks in May, researchers sailed around part of the gulf, which is the only place vaquitas — the most endangered porpoise in the world — live.
— Catherine Garcia, The Week, 15 June 2023 -
The manual gearbox is an endangered species at this point, outsold by EVs in the U.S. since the end of the last decade.
— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2023 -
More than 2,000 of those endangered species are used for medicines, food and fuel.
— Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024 -
This area is also home to five out of the seven endangered sea turtle species in the world.
— Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022 -
In New England, there are nine species of bats, among them the endangered little brown bat.
— Olivia Deng, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023 -
The bald eagle was removed from the nation’s endangered species list in 2007.
— Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023 -
But now they’ve been joined by 53 of Australia’s most endangered bird species.
— Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2021 -
Last week, a rare and endangered okapi calf was born at the zoo to parents Kayin and Bosomi.
— Catherine Garcia, The Week, 15 Sep. 2022 -
That all makes the endangered program all the more important.
— Chloe Berger, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023 -
Is the algorithm going to make the out-of-shape nebbish standup an endangered species?
— Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023 -
The San Diego Zoo recently caught one of its endangered elephants dancing – and singing – in the rain.
— Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024 -
North Carolinians have been working to save the endangered wolves since the 1970s.
— Laura Bratton, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2024 -
The purpose: to prevent the boats from hitting an endangered right whale.
— Douglas Kennedy, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2022
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