Sentence examples similar to a defunct theory from inspiring English sources

An historically important, though now largely defunct, theory explained it in terms of penalty.

A couple were originally published in The Quarterly, a defunct publication that used to be edited by Gordon Lish, the former fiction editor of Esquire, and was a showcase for his theory of fiction, which was that the reader -- or Mr. Lish, anyway -- would quit the moment he came upon a sentence that didn't interest him.

Is the digital divide a defunct framework?

"Decomposition of a defunct culture.

(And the subject of a defunct blog).

Now it is a defunct orchestra.

A defunct electric stove rested on the front porch.

No, you have not stepped into a defunct deli.

It's a defunct retail model," he said.

A linear settlement pattern of ancient sites was interpreted as showing the distribution along a defunct river branch.

Dakota Gasification Company was once a defunct coal mine.