How to Use defunct in a Sentence

defunct

adjective

• She wrote for the now-defunct newspaper.
• 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
• It's made up (at least in part) of folks and perhaps aircraft from the now-defunct Wow airline.
  — The Washington Post, 22 June 2020
• 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
• At the time, Black was a producer for the now-defunct Q101 radio station.
  — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• Later that year, though, 101 coins moved from the address to the now defunct bitcoin exchange BTC-e.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 5 Nov. 2020
• 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 two runners are former teammates with the now defunct Nike Oregon Project.
  — oregonlive, 28 Oct. 2020
• They will be held in the Westfield North County shopping mall parking lot in front of the defunct Nordstrom store.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020
• 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
• At least, that was the case until a new kind of potential death sentence forced dozens to quarantine in the defunct unit.
  — Fox News, 3 July 2020
• 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
• After all, Polo Jeans, a now-defunct faction by Ralph Lauren, wouldn’t break the bank.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2020
• The shopping center was once anchored by a Mervyn’s, the defunct Bay Area department store chain.
  — Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• 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
• But in 2021, Wilks got a call from a friend who said that Mike Tyson wanted to talk about reviving his defunct cannabis company which had gone bust a few years earlier.
  — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2025
• The San Jose Redevelopment Agency, which is now defunct, was able to rescue the building and arrange for its reconstruction.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Mar 2025