How to Use outmoded in a Sentence

outmoded

adjective

• The Army’s attempt to replace its outmoded Bradley tank is a case in point.
  — Elliott Negin, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2020
• Leaving aside the outmoded notions of the first film (Why isn’t Arthur’s mom, Queen Atlanna, allowed to rule?
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• As part of a statewide shift away from group care, most counties have moved away from the mostly outmoded shelter model.
  — Karen De Sá, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
• Pulling back from an outmoded script will at least avoid further damage.
  — Zachary Karabell, Time, 17 Oct. 2022
• From such details, the artist constructs a small, nearly outmoded world.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• But there is more to the story than a poor internal culture and outmoded leaders.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 14 July 2022
• The jacket was a showy tweed, with outmoded leather patches on the elbows and pimpled all over with forest-green nubbles.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 14 June 2021
• Mere weeks later, Bach's statement already sounds like the last gasp of an outmoded ideal.
  — Bruce Berglund, CNN, 5 Mar. 2022
• In some places using cash is beginning to feel as outmoded as mailing a check to pay your electric bill.
  — Town & Country, 28 Jan. 2019
• The media, the opposition, the resistance, and indeed the rest of the Free World are playing by outmoded rules of engagement with regard to the man in the White House.
  — Graydon Carter, The Hive, 26 Jan. 2017
• Reuse honors the past by giving what’s troubled or outmoded a fresh face.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The extra daylight comes to us by way of the outmoded practice of Daylight Saving Time, when farmers needed more daylight to plant all the things.
  — Allison Hope, CNN, 16 Mar. 2021
• Others have simply been out of the campaigns game for a full four or more years now, so hiring them carries a risk of staffing up with outmoded, out-of-touch figures.
  — Liz Mair, Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2020
• But not every rocker felt so outmoded, as artists from all genres started changing their looks and sounds to fit the moment.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2021
• But powerful forces sustain this outmoded ways of seeing the world.
  — Charles King, Time, 6 Aug. 2019
• The idea that women must choose — that one is either a Christine or a Stevie — is an outmoded and reductive binary in the year 2022.
  — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• To look at the ethnicity of a cast as a way of putting limitations on a film is completely outmoded.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• The four pretty Makioka sisters embody an outmoded and rarefied way of life.
  — Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• The broken stuff was supposed to be outmoded technologies and ways of doing business.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 31 July 2018
• For now, that's enough: fewer fried foods, an outmoded apartment-complex gym, those cobbled-together hours on the bike.
  — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 21 July 2016
• That’s an even bigger challenge for an outmoded grid with fewer tools available.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2021
• The bridge's ultimate fate might have more to do with becoming too outmoded for transportation a century or so from now, Sweeney said.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2017
• This is how that God—now outmoded, but very much a force to be reckoned with for most of recorded history—must have regarded everything.
  — Margaret Jull Costa, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• Always game to put on a show with the kind of entrance even Lady Gaga would envy, Cruella upstages the somewhat outmoded Baroness on the red carpet several times.
  — Tomris Laffly, Vulture, 4 June 2021
• One of Northbrook's shopping strips is on the way to getting a refit that will start with replacing three outmoded signs with two new ones, but change is difficult in coming.
  — Irv Leavitt, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2017
• The future of the XL Center has been debated for more than a decade, as the outmoded arena has lost its competitive edge against newer concert venues at the state’s two casinos.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• But any understanding of HIV that could justify this ban is outmoded and at odds with current science.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
• By 1970, the year that women struck for equality across the country, the Barbizon looked outmoded and unappealing.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2021
• The break offered a chance to move away from this outmoded practice and adapt to the more complex reality of China’s twenty-first-century economy.
  — Jeremy Wallace, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2022
• Target will no longer accept personal checks from shoppers as of July 15, another sign of how a once ubiquitous payment method is going the way of outmoded objects like floppy disks and the Rolodex.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024