Sentence examples for have become defunct from inspiring English sources

Significant components such as the car body and rectifiers had to be built by Bombardier based on abandoned production lines, and many of the original manufacturers for the interior have become defunct.

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

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.

By the late 20th century the eleven-plus exams had become defunct and the vast majority of secondary-school students attended comprehensive schools, with a much smaller proportion attending grammar schools or technical schools.

New York Times The United States has become defunct, a racist psychopath holds all of the power and the first thing that the new U.S. government is trying to get working is the mail.

Don't fear if your favorite ride has changed or has become defunct.

Economist Tomas Sedlacek, who has won an international following for his book Economics of Good and Evil, insists that contemporary societies have become slaves to a defunct economistic view of the world.

The Daytime parade they once had, has now become defunct.

In the post-Communist Germany, "Hot Summer" has become a cult film in somewhat the same spirit that East Germany's quaintly functional package designs have become collectibles and the Communist "kinderhymnes" of the defunct Free German Youth organization have been reissued on CD.

Fragments of defunct spacecraft captured in orbit technology have become an important direction of the development of space technology.

As an alternative to smoking tobacco, the devices have become such an attractive investment option that Sean Parker, co-founder of the now defunct music-sharing site Napster, is buying a stake in NJOY, one of the companies that makes e-cigarettes.