Sentence examples for so defunct from inspiring English sources

"I haven't seen the Security Council so defunct since the build-up to the Iraq war in 2003," said Egeland.

But does the language or dilemma of the two nations still have any currency when its racial origins are so completely defunct?

"At first the sight of the dead and wounded was almost overpowering," he wrote, but added: "but all feeling of humanity soon gave way to a careless indifference and the boys walked among the dead as if amongst so many defunct porkers".

The remains beneath the ornate marble canopy are in all likelihood not those of the doomed 12th-century lovers, but there are now so many defunct celebrities here that it doesn't much matter.

Most of these gene losses must have happened many Mya ago, so finding defunct gene sequences is rather unlikely.

These so-called defunct machines are also better at keeping secrets, which is why Polt also views the typewriter as an anti-surveillance tool.

Duke is defunct, so the $1.8 million award is the responsibility of Fiserv.

Many of them are now mercifully defunct so my lapses in taste are lost forever.

(So did the defunct Mike Huckabee last night in the same counties — interesting, and maybe a worrying sign for McCain).

No one wants to spend $300 and more for an e-reader and buy hundreds of books, some costing up to $30, only to find that an advance in technology makes their present e-reader defunct so they will no longer be able to read the books they have bought.

All systems in the cab were defunct, so while he drifted in and out of consciousness, he used his mobile to call his then partner Jan, now his wife, who also worked for Virgin trains to raise the alarm The whole thing was so unbelievable.