How to Use endangered in a Sentence

endangered

adjective
  • The largest owl in the world, the Blakiston’s fish owl is both rare and endangered.
    — Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
  • But red wolves are the most endangered canid in the entire world.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 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
  • Interview activists and the scared, the safe and the endangered.
    — Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
  • For the sake of my endangered TV screen, if nothing else.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2021
  • In 2007, the bald eagle was removed from the list of threatened and endangered species.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The bird was a whooping crane, the tallest bird in North America and among the most endangered.
    — Sara Sneath | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 6 Sep. 2020
  • The Mexican gray wolf is the most endangered subspecies of wolf in the world.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • There are endangered snails that live nowhere else in the world except in the regions around L.A.
    — Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2025
  • There haven't been any sites removed from the endangered list this time around.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 28 July 2021
  • 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 1967, pupfish were labeled an endangered species, one of the first in the United States.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Even with the canal’s closure, there still may not be enough water for the endangered fish, the bureau said in a press release.
    — oregonlive, 20 June 2021
  • Salmon runs are ‘at the brink of extinction' in the nation's ‘most endangered river’ of 2021.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Fire and debris destroyed nests, eggs and fragile habitat of endangered species in the area, the New York Times reported.
    — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 6 May 2025
  • Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti talks with Deininger about perspectives on his trash-centric art, and raising awareness about the human threats to endangered species.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 9 May 2025

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