Sentence examples for it will be defunct from inspiring English sources

"There's no central leadership where they can go and knock off the top guy and it will be defunct," he said.

Some time soon a brilliant mystery spinner will arrive and I'll be defunct.

Bradford's e-mail network and mailing address will be defunct by month's end, its transcripts sent to nearby Merrimack College, the $20 million endowment in the hands of the state attorney general.

I set up four partnerships last year and two of them will be defunct by April.

But the novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly "of now" is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the "now" with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

But I don't think it will be by joining an already antiquated and defunct system".

When the 190m-high dome is finished it will be inched into place and sealed over the defunct power plant.

I hope it will be proved right, but Washington is replete with now-defunct independent bodies and commissions that toiled dutifully, did good work, and made little difference.

In the case of the Western Avenue overpass, which was built in 1961 to deal with congestion from the now-defunct Riverview Amusement Park, it's in such poor shape that it will be demolished next year.

Take a lesson from our defunct former enemies: Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, ordered the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 on the advice of his generals and intelligence chiefs, confident that "it'll be over in three to four weeks".

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