Sentence examples for were already obsolete from inspiring English sources
The OED like Littré's great 19th-century French dictionary, and its German equivalent, begun by the brothers Grimm truly was a historical survey; of the 240,000 words it treated, 52,000 were already obsolete.
The s (first put into service in the late 1870s) also needed replacement, as they were already obsolete, even under the 25-year standard.
It was considered in 1901 to replace the turrets with new balanced models used in later ships, but that was decided to be too costly as the ships were already obsolete.
Indeed, Dr Ritchie says that the PDP-7 was already obsolete at the time.
Now manufacturers want to convince those people that their once-futuristic sets are already obsolete.
The tactics that worked only a few months ago are already obsolete.
Get comfortable with the fact that anything you buy is already obsolete.
Of course, the book was already obsolete when it appeared in early September, just before the terrorist attack.
In keeping with DeLillo's thesis, Cosmopolis presents a version of the world that is already obsolete.
By the time they've planned, approved and executed their digital transformation programme, it's already obsolete.
