How to Use extant in a Sentence

extant

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Saunders referenced much of the brand’s extant designs for the project.
  — Vogue, 15 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• But this new finding adds evidence to the case that Europa’s ocean would be a good bet for hosting extant life.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
• Xxxtentacion’s estate has so far only issued a few extant tracks, but his presence is all over the charts.
  — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
• Much of the extant record of his three voyages comes from de Veer’s contemporary account.
  — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• Their extant parts will always be haunted by what is missing.
  — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2022
• Visit the site of the world’s oldest still extant parliament, the Althing, convened in A.D. 930.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• By 2010, there were four hundred thousand Elvis Presleys extant, some of them women.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• In 2013, scientists were able to recover the sound of a musical interlude from the extant slip of foil.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
• Which is in part to say, Lonnie’s lived through enough epochs of drug dealing to know the immense extant dangers for his posterity.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024