Sentence examples for was obsolescent from inspiring English sources
adjective
In the process of becoming obsolete, but not obsolete yet.
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.
Two partisans of the thesis, Joshua S. Goldstein and Steven Pinker, acknowledged in an opinion article in the Sunday Review last December that the idea that war was obsolescent might seem preposterously utopian.
This was about a maneuvver held in Europe that had shown just that... What pleased us, perversely, was that the military plane (gadget), improvised circa 1914, was obsolescent, while infantry (man), with a considerably longer history, was in as much demand as ever.
It offered a vivid snapshot of what Washington looked like when clueless ancien-régime conservatives were feebly clinging to their last levers of power, blissfully oblivious to the new America that was crashing down on their heads and reducing their antics to a sideshow as ridiculous as it was obsolescent.
She was obsolescent by World War I and was slated to be broken up in 1914 15, but the need for warships granted Emanuele Filiberto a respite.
Most equipment was obsolescent and had to be replaced, and new factories were required to produce the latest weapons, equipment and motor vehicles.
The idea that war is obsolescent may seem preposterously utopian.
They come down when they are obsolescent in 30-40 years. 30-40 years
The whole Playboy thing is obsolescent, as is Hefner, who is 89.
Indeed, it could be obsolescent only a few years after it enters service.
Even in England, the word knave is obsolescent, used only by the very old or those being consciously quaint.
