How to Use defunct in a Sentence

defunct

adjective

• She wrote for the now-defunct newspaper.
• Watching people vote this election to repeal the defunct ban gave her a deeper sense of security in her home and family.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst and Sam Metz, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 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
• During its life, the defunct Yavapai County prospect yielded silver, gold, copper and lead.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
• The now-defunct company had worked on thousands of offices, apartments, and homes for more than 30 years, according to its website.
  — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
• All three brand names are now defunct as consumer goods companies face a reckoning from activists pushing for more racially sensitive branding.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2020
• The company, which is now effectively defunct, wasn’t charged in the U.S. corruption case.
  — Sadie Gurman and Rebecca Davis O’Brien, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• Ivan Lam, who co-founded the now-defunct student activist group Scholarism with Wong, was sentenced to 10 months.
  — Naomi Xu Elegant, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2020
• Last year, former officers Kenneth Betts and Brandon Wood went to prison for abusing minors in the now-defunct program.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 16 Nov. 2020
• The lipstick index, that famous economic barometer coined by Leonard Lauder (who noted that lip color sales tend to soar in tough times), has been declared defunct.
  — April Long, Town & Country, 4 Dec. 2020
• The women and their mother toil long hours at the Shady Rest, a nursing home next to the defunct train station, where the lack of basic facilities necessitates bathing in an old water tank.
  — Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 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
• 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
• 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: 8 Jan 2025