Sentence examples for was almost defunct from inspiring English sources

The ranks of Young Labour swelled in areas where the group was almost defunct.

Mrs Mottram, now in her 80s, says that when she came to Lacoste in 1964 the village was almost defunct.

Reynier put together fifty investors, who paid six and a half million pounds for a remote distillery that was almost defunct.

Some m.c.s were simply goofballs, a category that's almost defunct.

Despised dalits, being landless, have been quick to migrate to India's cities, where the caste system is almost defunct.

In Romford, the old East Enders are hankering after a close-knit, defiantly English way of life that is almost defunct.

The details of timing are, in the big picture, less significant than the fact that the catwalk-as-trade-show is almost defunct; the modern catwalk show is an event for the wider fashion audience.

(Government factories are almost defunct in Bangladesh. For example, almost all garment factories -- the primary industry in the country -- are private).

Moves like this are not a guarantee of app success — it was almost exactly a year ago that the now-defunct Color inked a big partnership to come pre-loaded on all Verizon devices, for example.

The historically important ports of Monte Cristi and Sánchez in the north are now almost defunct.

Though the company is now defunct, if you go onto the Symbolics.com, it's almost like an Internet museum--like the barn in New Jersey where Thomas Edison made his first movie.