Example sentences for: extant

How can you use “extant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With all the dialects and long-lived speakers of English today, the lexicographer risks inaccuracy in labeling a word, phrase, or sense obsolete or archaic : there is sure to be someone who speaks a form of English in which the expression is extant.

  • The symbolism of power conveyed by horns and horn-related Hebrew (and other Semitic) words as portrayed on the aforementioned coins (or some others, which might have used the same imagery but which are no longer extant) may well have led St. Jerome to his translation.

  • Although the mines are superseded by those in South America and South Africa, the art of cutting and polishing is still extant in Gujarat.

  • Although the major events in the evolution of polymerases occurred at very early stages of evolution and LUCA already had an advanced DDRP resembling the extant forms, subsequent lineage-specific elaborations of considerable magnitude have occurred.

  • Clearly, none of the extant studies could be done without the support and involvement of emergency medicine physicians and trauma surgeons.


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