How to Use out of circulation in a Sentence

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• That’s the plan in Oakland County, where police plan to buy guns from the public to get them out of circulation.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2022
• It was released in Cuba and a few U.S. cities in 1931 but quickly fell out of circulation.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2022
• Money will also be set aside for a statewide program to buy guns back from owners in order to get them out of circulation.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 9 Feb. 2022
• The film itself, out of circulation since that initial one-week pay-per-view window, will become available for rental and download for the first time in June, as well.
  — Chris Willman, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• Retiring a jersey and taking a number out of circulation is a big deal.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
• In more extreme cases, titles have been taken out of circulation.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• Lusk sponsored a separate motion that the board also approved, directing the county staff to study how to take more firearms out of circulation through a county gun-buyback program.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
• That essentially takes millions of barrels of oil out of circulation.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 8 Mar. 2022
• Hedgerows also take greenhouse gases out of circulation through carbon storage.
  — Judith Magyar, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• That impulse, to safeguard monuments by taking them out of circulation, doesn’t help much in preserving postindependence landmarks old enough to have grown shabby but not ancient enough to be timeless.
  — Curbed, 17 Feb. 2022
• Countries with fewer guns have fewer shootings, so a voluntary gun buyback program could be a key step in taking guns, especially assault rifles like the AR-15 prevalent in mass shootings, out of circulation entirely.
  — Landon Block, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024