How to Use defunct in a Sentence

defunct

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  • She wrote for the now-defunct newspaper.
  • The substance could be used to fill defunct oil and gas wells.
    — Jesse Bedayn, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
  • West Virginia bailed on the now-defunct Big East the following year for the Big 12.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2022
  • It wasn’t sold in the United States and became defunct a few years ago.
    — James Raia, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
  • Some of these chains are defunct, some are struggling, and some are thriving.
    — Addison Del Mastro, The Week, 20 July 2021
  • The defunct shopping center was on 59th and Northern avenues, and the city pitched the site as an option for the Coyotes.
    — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Their nuptials took place in a private suite of the now-defunct Aladdin Hotel.
    — Nicole Briese, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2022
  • At the time, Black was a producer for the now-defunct Q101 radio station.
    — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Later that year, though, 101 coins moved from the address to the now defunct bitcoin exchange BTC-e.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Illinois Central is now defunct and the train line is run by Metra.
    — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Paul and his brother Logan rose to fame on the defunct social platform Vine with their comedic shorts.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 8 June 2023
  • Last year, the Detroit giant managed to sell two examples of the defunct sports car.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The program, now defunct, was at its height in the early to mid-1990s when Xiong was in elementary school.
    — Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The two runners are former teammates with the now defunct Nike Oregon Project.
    — oregonlive, 28 Oct. 2020
  • They will be held in the Westfield North County shopping mall parking lot in front of the defunct Nordstrom store.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The league's Great Kills chapter in Staten Island is defunct.
    — NBC News, 12 Aug. 2021
  • In England, the nuggets of news appear in old copies of long-defunct sports newspapers dating to 1930.
    — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Around that same time, the now-defunct Mexican restaurant chain Chi-Chi's was sweeping the nation.
    — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 28 July 2022
  • At least, that was the case until a new kind of potential death sentence forced dozens to quarantine in the defunct unit.
    — Fox News, 3 July 2020
  • The Skinny: After being defunct since 1980, the Crown Conference is back with a new look.
    — cleveland, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The errors are then replicated until the virus is defunct.
    — Riley Griffin, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The trust, set up to resolve asbestos claims against the long-defunct contractor, is a defendant in many of the lawsuits.
    — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The golden-colored slip dress was from her now-defunct clothing line, Daya by Zendaya.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022
  • After all, Polo Jeans, a now-defunct faction by Ralph Lauren, wouldn’t break the bank.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The shopping center was once anchored by a Mervyn’s, the defunct Bay Area department store chain.
    — Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Over the weekend, Russian forces captured the town of Slavutych where many workers at the defunct Chernobyl plant live.
    — Fox News, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The boys, who were between 11 and 15 years old, had been placed at the now-defunct school by the state Department of Children and Families or the state's court system.
    — Susan Haigh, Star Tribune, 15 July 2021
  • Now, Scholar Athletes is defunct, done in by the pandemic, Fish said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Bush chose Moody a year later to serve on the Board of Regents, the defunct governing body for the state’s university system.
    — Dan Sullivan, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The automotive history books are thick with defunct models that tried to be too many things to too many people and wound up being the wrong thing for most.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2025

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