Sentence examples for they were defunct from inspiring English sources

Maybe Rotten was singing about the Pistols themselves – seven months later, they were defunct as a creative force after the singer quit.

Many of these institutions would be unable to do so, however, because they are defunct.

So, in effect, they are defunct laws, written only to placate observers.

The antenna belonged to a station that had been defunct for the last decade, they said.

They also ran a cancer charity, which appears to be defunct.

In 2011, millions noticed: in Spain and Greece and New York and Cairo, they sat down in public squares, and said the machine was defunct.

Together they established a company under the resurrected name of Norman Norell, which had been defunct since 1996.

"Minamisoma is defunct," she said.

Those companies are defunct.

The company is defunct.

Both are defunct.