Sentence examples for were made obsolete from inspiring English sources

It and all other hand-operated machine guns were made obsolete by the development of recoil- and gas-operated guns that followed the invention of smokeless gunpowder.

Whole workforces were made obsolete, and successive governments failed to come up with strategies that would treat these people with dignity.

Late medieval stools, which resembled small benches, were called board, or slab-ended, stools; they were made obsolete by the standard joint stool, which was produced, in the 17th century, in upholstered sets with chairs and footstools.

Like many waterfront areas of New York, the industrial docks near the Fulton ferry landing were made obsolete by the emergence of containerized shipping and the development of container ports in New Jersey.

Kaye alternates between Columbo's story and those of contemporaries like Flo Ziegfeld (whose legendary Follies were made obsolete by the new technology) and Carole Lombard (who resisted Columbo's proposals only to call him later "the great love of my life") to construct a critical study.

Don't be too surprised, the end support for Windows XP has driven business demand for new computers, as aging systems were made obsolete by the final demise of the now-ancient operating system.

This was the case with the Blue Streak medium-range ballistic missile, which the government intended as the successor to an RAF bomber fleet that improved Soviet air defences were making obsolete.

Industry sales are shrinking as PCs are made obsolete by other devices.

(Varieties are made obsolete based on the decisions of an internal group called the Dead Variety Society).

The war on drugs has not been lost, it has been made obsolete.

More and more things you know and tools you use "are being made obsolete faster," added Mundie.