Sentence examples for had become expendable from inspiring English sources

Mr. Diem had become expendable.

Luongo had become expendable when DiPietro was drafted.

My childhood favorite was getting old and had become expendable; it was left to the fresh-cheeked rookie, now my patient, to bump him into obsolescence.

As it turned out, a blockbuster trade was agreed in principle before the 2008 09 campaign: six-time All-Star Jermaine O'Neal was acquired from the Indiana Pacers in exchange for Ford (who had become expendable with the emergence of Calderón), Rasho Nesterović, Maceo Baston, and Roy Hibbert, the 17th pick in the 2008 NBA draft, giving the Raptors a potential boost in the frontcourt.

Somebody would have become expendable, most likely Parker, with Kidd still in his prime.

"I think he has become expendable," Joaquín Peréz, Mr. Castaño's lawyer, said by phone from Miami.

Under this new regulatory regime, senior analysts with compensation packages set during the 1990's boom have become expendable, bankers and research officials say.

Perez was an offensive force late last season and in the first two rounds of the postseason, but, for now, he has become expendable.

With David Wright, a prime Mets prospect, threatening to join the team in the next month, Wigginton has become expendable, and the club has tried to trade him in packages for a starting pitcher.

The truth is that around the world children have become "expendable".

In today's economy, Pope Francis observed, human beings have become expendable.