Sentence examples for has been defunct from inspiring English sources
Founded in 1907, the original Shinola (pronounced SHINE-ola), has been defunct for decades, but the nostalgic name and trademark rights were plucked out of has-been brand obscurity a few years back and applied to a modern-day range of retro-inspired, made-in-America products, including bicycles, leather journals and now handsome wristwatches that retail from $495 to $725.
(The Indian Point 1 reactor has been defunct for years).
Last year was a big one for Fluxus, despite the fact that this international network of artists, composers and poetic pranksters has been defunct for several decades.
Now that Communism has been defunct for nearly twenty years, though, the cry of socialism no longer packs its old punch.
But the RMS, the Republic of the South Moluccas, has been defunct for decades, other than as a nominal government-in-exile in the Netherlands.
Most of the surfers congregate at Maria's (reminiscent of a scene out of "Gidget," if only Sandra Dee had worn a string bikini and Moondoogie had longer hair and tattoos) and Domes (the site of Latin America's first nuclear energy plant, which has been defunct since the 1970's).
The antenna belonged to a station that had been defunct for the last decade, they said.
These included the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), thought to have been defunct since the 2000s.
Together they established a company under the resurrected name of Norman Norell, which had been defunct since 1996.
