How to Use moribund in a Sentence

moribund

adjective

• The peace talks are moribund.
• The new film is a shot in the arm for a moribund genre.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• But the ratings for the show out of the gate were moribund.
  — Benjamin Mullin, New York Times, 5 June 2023
• That could be enough to get the moribund Suns back to the playoffs.
  — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 8 July 2019
• Wout Weghorst, who’d just been sent on to spark the moribund Dutch, got one back on a header in the 83rd.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• But Dean warns that these groups are far from moribund.
  — Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister, CNN, 23 May 2018
• Their last week was a win over the moribund Cal offense.
  — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 30 Oct. 2019
• Through Lehrer’s work, a moribund piece of city has been brought back to leafy, ebullient life.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
• The rise of the moribund franchise has been nothing short of shocking.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
• This came as something of a surprise, and not only to the moribund regime.
  — Brian Stewart, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
• The Jerusalem issue and the moribund peace process are expected to be high on the agenda.
  — Josef Federman and Tia Goldenberg, Houston Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2017
• One of the lieutenant governor’s few duties is to be the chair of the board, which had grown moribund.
  — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• Grand Forks is not a moribund city in desperate need of work.
  — New York Times, 17 July 2022
• The Bucs hope the 43-year-old’s bold move south will help revive a moribund franchise and lead to a Super Bowl run.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• Marisnick's return to the Major League club has mirrored the moribund stretch that forced him from it in the first place.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 30 May 2018
• In the run-up to the trade deadline, the Cavs were a broken, moribund team plagued by injuries and infighting.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 15 Feb. 2018
• The new jobs offer a small bit of hope in the still moribund New Orleans tourism industry.
  — Anthony McAuley | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 9 Feb. 2021
• With Biden no longer atop the ticket, the moribund Democratic grassroots came to life.
  — Charlotte Alter/philadelphia, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024
• The Indians made the playoffs in Terry's first year in 2013 with what was thought to be a moribund franchise.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 28 Dec. 2017
• The parade came at a time when suffrage efforts seemed moribund.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
• As a result, the Reno housing market has gone from moribund to scorching.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• Cal’s offense has been moribund for most of the season, with or without Garbers.
  — Joe Williams, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 16 Nov. 2019
• In 1979, he was hired to take over a moribund Miami program that had not won more than six games in a season in more than a decade.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 27 Mar. 2021
• The days when a general manager could swing a deal to shake up a moribund roster are all but gone.
  — Carol Schram, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• That’s partly because the East is still somewhat moribund, but also because The Process, as it is called, kind of works.
  — Staff Report, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2017
• This moribund franchise had signed new players for years.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• The top pick in the 2021 draft was supposed to inject some life into the Detroit Pistons’ moribund offense.
  — Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2021
• Perhaps this cheeky spirit is just the thing to breathe new life into the moribund festival style scene.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 16 July 2018
• But Israel has only stepped up a fierce ground and air assault on northern Gaza, and, with the region still anticipating an Israeli retaliatory strike against Iran, cease-fire talks remain moribund.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2024
• Its première in France, last month, reignited a moribund national debate around the issue, transforming Diop into a fixture on radio and television and landing 26 on the cover of the leftist daily Libération.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024