Sentence examples for an obsolete form from inspiring English sources
Mussels were abundant in the area, and the name given to the shoals was an obsolete form of the word mussel.
Scribe began his career as a playwright by resurrecting the vaudeville, an obsolete form of short satirical comedy that used rhymed and sung couplets and featured musical interludes.
In the article, Wilson relates his surprise at the enduring popularity of the genre: One had supposed that the ghost story itself was already an obsolete form; that it had been killed by the electric light.
"We all live under the shadow of a haunting fear that something may corrupt the environment to the point where man joins the dinosaurs as an obsolete form of life," Dr. David E. Price, of the United States Public Health Service, has said.
Rather than being seen as an obsolete form of pre-scientific realist thought, superseded by neorealist theory, his thinking is now considered to be more complex and of a greater contemporary relevance than was earlier recognized (Williams 2007, 1 9).
"You have this slick, futuristic image made using the most up-to-the-minute technology, but it's transferred to an analog, obsolete form.
I'm finishing one right now on zeppelins, a fascinating obsolete form of transportation with sometimes explosive results if not handled right.
"At the very beginning of the digital era, we had forms of storage for these photographs that were not a transparency, not a negative, that are completely obsolete forms of technology," she says.
Like Joseph A. Schumpeter, they lay emphasis on growth as a process of "creative destruction" in which obsolete forms of resource allocation and wealth -- jobs, fixed-capital assets, technologies, and balance sheets -- are replaced by higher-value ones.
The package, presented as a cutting-edge experience, was actually an invitation to indulge yourself in not one but two obsolete forms of travel.
