Sentence examples for became defunct from inspiring English sources

That channel became defunct when the latter quit Number 10.

Subsequently the mineral line was linked to the viaduct, and the incline became defunct.

The priesthood became defunct with the destruction of Herod's Temple and the cessation of sacrifices in ad 70.

Named for Queen Adelaide, consort of the British king William IV, it was incorporated as Australia's first municipal government in 1840, but the city council ran into considerable debt and became defunct in 1843.

The NRC was established on Oct. 11, 1974, by President Gerald Ford as one of two successor organizations to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), which became defunct on that same day.

COJO became defunct after one of its officials, Paul Chernick, pleaded guilty and another, Rabbi Elimelech Naiman, was convicted of making illegal payments to Assemblyman Dov Hikind for help in getting state aid.

It won't be the first time a word has  become defunct through misuse or changing times.

But club members also face a choice: buy your capsules from Nespresso – or your expensive machine become defunct.

If the Pac-10 swiped six teams from the Big 12 and Missouri or Nebraska went to the Big Ten, the Big 12 would become defunct.

The NAACP is in charge of administering the award, with Howard and Fisk universities designated as alternates should the NAACP ever become defunct.

It was thought that the institution, an idea imported from the US by Brown, had become defunct, but it appears to have been revived by Osborne.