Sentence examples for obsolete world from inspiring English sources

A 20-kiloton atomic bomb was dropped from an airplane and exploded in the air over a fleet of about 80 obsolete World War II naval vessels, among them battleships and aircraft carriers, all of them unmanned.

Weaponry was in short supply, and many units were either unarmed or were equipped with obsolete World War II-era rifles.

He finds himself obsolete in a world where humans have become self-sufficient at doing evil.

Mr. Goldhaber's company was not only pre-World Wide Web but occupied only a small niche that has long since become obsolete in the world of networks.

(Even the obsolete term "New World" is newer).

For him, Margaret Thatcher stood for the modern turn that made his dons' world obsolete.

The Dreadnought immediately made all preceding battleships obsolete, but by World War I it was obsolescent itself, having been outclassed by faster "superdreadnoughts" carrying bigger guns.

That's my nightmare: an intimation that intelligence is obsolete in a world where things are either blazingly obvious or pitch dark.

For all the amusing raspberries Durang blows at melancholy, the play also provides a clever parallel to the seismic upheaval of industrialization, which the bewildered characters in Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" could neither stop nor fully understand, even as it rendered them and their world obsolete.

Unless I focused my energies on "brand me" I would be obsolete in a world of technophile jet-setters.Perhaps instead of revelling in our hubris, today's managers could apologise for the destruction of the job market for which we so eagerly prepared.

"Knowledge becomes obsolete when the world changes.