Sentence examples for moot that from inspiring English sources

Much of "Pompeii" follows, quite satisfyingly, the "scientific" plotline: Attilius' efforts to make sense of the systemic failure of the water system feeding all the cities of the Bay of Naples -- a failure, as Attilius realizes just as the eruption makes his insight moot, that is due to the seismic disturbances that are typically the harbingers of volcanic eruptions.

Others moot that Xstrata and Anglo might join forces.

But maybe it was precisely because those distinctions were becoming moot that people felt emboldened to use it.

He was such an indefatigable storyteller -- his World War II stories and the adventures of his dog, Moot -- that when I was 10 or so, as if to be worthy of his esteem, I fell into the vice of telling serial tall tales about myself, which Uncle Mattie and my father listened to as if they were true.

Because to the supplier if the supplier truly believes that he or she is going to deliver by that date, the contingency is almost moot because from the supplier's perspective yeah I'm for sure going to deliver by that date, so it's moot that if I don't– because that's not going to happen– I pay you more.

Ninety percent of dollar bills test positive for cocaine so it's kind of moot that the occasional bandit will use cryptocurrency to do their dirty business.

Perhaps, Gresta mooted, that could even let the company give tickets away for free.

John Lanchester recently mooted that the word "poverty" has distracting moral associations – that "no one really starves".

It's been mooted that he wouldn't mind calling some local games.

As it's mooted that they could be featured next, an unease descends.

But after his latest hearing 11 May, it was mooted that the announcement might come later this month.