How to Use defunct in a Sentence

defunct

adjective

• She wrote for the now-defunct newspaper.
• Also, at the beginning of a rush on ammo, these older and seemingly defunct cartridges will be the last to sell out.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 29 Dec. 2020
• Four titles from the defunct—but clearly still hugely popular—band have debuted on the chart in the past few months, and all but one of them have landed inside the top 10.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• Wolford played in the now defunct Alliance of American Football before the Rams signed him in 2019.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• The substance could be used to fill defunct oil and gas wells.
  — Jesse Bedayn, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
• West Virginia bailed on the now-defunct Big East the following year for the Big 12.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2022
• It wasn’t sold in the United States and became defunct a few years ago.
  — James Raia, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
• Some of these chains are defunct, some are struggling, and some are thriving.
  — Addison Del Mastro, The Week, 20 July 2021
• The defunct shopping center was on 59th and Northern avenues, and the city pitched the site as an option for the Coyotes.
  — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
• Their nuptials took place in a private suite of the now-defunct Aladdin Hotel.
  — Nicole Briese, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2022
• Illinois Central is now defunct and the train line is run by Metra.
  — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• Paul and his brother Logan rose to fame on the defunct social platform Vine with their comedic shorts.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 8 June 2023
• Last year, the Detroit giant managed to sell two examples of the defunct sports car.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2024
• The program, now defunct, was at its height in the early to mid-1990s when Xiong was in elementary school.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2021
• The league's Great Kills chapter in Staten Island is defunct.
  — NBC News, 12 Aug. 2021
• In England, the nuggets of news appear in old copies of long-defunct sports newspapers dating to 1930.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022
• Around that same time, the now-defunct Mexican restaurant chain Chi-Chi's was sweeping the nation.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 28 July 2022
• The Skinny: After being defunct since 1980, the Crown Conference is back with a new look.
  — cleveland, 17 Feb. 2022
• The errors are then replicated until the virus is defunct.
  — Riley Griffin, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2021
• The trust, set up to resolve asbestos claims against the long-defunct contractor, is a defendant in many of the lawsuits.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• The golden-colored slip dress was from her now-defunct clothing line, Daya by Zendaya.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022
• Over the weekend, Russian forces captured the town of Slavutych where many workers at the defunct Chernobyl plant live.
  — Fox News, 29 Mar. 2022
• The boys, who were between 11 and 15 years old, had been placed at the now-defunct school by the state Department of Children and Families or the state's court system.
  — Susan Haigh, Star Tribune, 15 July 2021
• Now, Scholar Athletes is defunct, done in by the pandemic, Fish said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
• The cemetery has been defunct since 2010, so there were difficulties in pinpointing where the teen was buried.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2023
• As a reminder, this all got underway in earnest last year when Roku picked up dozens of shows from the now-defunct streaming service Quibi.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 18 May 2022
• Each year on June 4, members of the now-defunct student union would wash the statue to commemorate the massacre.
  — Fox News, 24 Dec. 2021
• The operator was Pan Am, an airline that is now defunct.
  — Elizabeth Souder, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2022
• Bugatti knows this better than most, having been defunct for a decent chunk of the second half of the 20th century.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2022
• Herro worked on Dough and launched another crypto trading business a decade ago called Pacer Capital, which appears to now be defunct.
  — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024