How to Use defunct in a Sentence

defunct

adjective

• She wrote for the now-defunct newspaper.
• The school, long defunct, has lately been converted into a retirement home for its trustees, all former pupils.
  — Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• In the gallery, viewers encounter a defunct pay phone replicated from fragments of wood and a decorative metal curlicue.
  — Danielle Avram, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2021
• One seller, whose Shopify store is now defunct, was selling a pack of four blank vaccination cards for $80.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2021
• Locals express frustration that a defunct hotel is wasting prime waterfront real estate that could be put to better use.
  — Will McGough, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• The marquees of defunct and destroyed movie theaters could populate a Hollywood not-forever cemetery.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
• 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 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
• Each new iPhone came with a one-year warranty for defects and other damages, allowing people to return defunct devices to the manufacturer for either a replacement or repair.
  — Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024