Sentence examples for were defunct from inspiring English sources
By the end of Mr Dolci's life the Christian Democrats, some of whose leaders had taken Mafia money, were defunct.
Maybe Rotten was singing about the Pistols themselves – seven months later, they were defunct as a creative force after the singer quit.
By 1980, most of the industries it had served were defunct, the trains were derailed, the tracks went to seed and the myth began to sprout.
The three labs in the state were "defunct," Mr. Sankaran said, and even some basic, useful tools like voice spectrographs, DNA testing, and firearms "fingerprinting," which matches bullets to weapons, were absent.
Lois Lerner, director of the division of the Internal Revenue Service that oversees tax-exempt groups, said the agency believed most of the organizations on the list were defunct, though there was really no way to know because so many of them simply could not be reached.
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.
"Minamisoma is defunct," she said.
Those companies are defunct.
The Works Progress Administration is defunct.
