Sample Sentences for
obsolete
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  • That military tactic became obsolete with the advent of the tank.
    obsolete = no longer in general use because it was replaced by something better
  • Technology will make that kind of job obsolete.
    obsolete = outdated and no longer wanted (by employers)
  • Kennedy agreed to remove some missiles from Turkey that had already been obsoleted by submarine-based missiles.
    obsoleted = made outdated as they were replaced with something newer and better
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  • By that era, home videogame consoles had already made most coin-op games obsolete.  (source)
    obsolete = no longer in general use because due to replacement with something better
  • Instead I kept the burden for myself, and my friendship with Nick, already anemic, underfed and underused, dwindled in obsolescence.  (source)
    obsolescence = no longer in general use
  • A crossword puzzle gave the definition of "obsolescent individuals" and the word came out as "capitalists."†  (source)
  • The ear of wheat (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope) should not be the only hope of the husbandman; its kernel or grain (granum from gerendo, bearing) is not all that it bears.†  (source)
  • Snow made growing food difficult, limited the agricultural periods. ... It wasn't a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness.  (source)
    obsolete = no longer in use
  • ...in this era of planned obsolescence, when a thing breaks down I can usually find something in my collection to repair it—a toilet, or a motor, or a, lawn mower.  (source)
    obsolescence = no longer in general use because it was replaced by something better
  • By inserting the barrel of an arruginated male key in the hole of an unstable female lock, obtaining a purchase on the bow of the key and turning its wards from right to left, withdrawing a bolt from its staple, pulling inward spasmodically an obsolescent unhinged door and revealing an aperture for free egress and free ingress.†  (source)
  • Wang subconsciously thought of her as the long-obsolete DOS operating system: a blank, black screen, a bare "command" prompt, a blinking cursor.  (source)
  • Decrepitude, obsolescence.†  (source)
  • [51] /Boulevard/, /drive/ and /speedway/ are almost [Pg300] unknown to the English, but they use /road/ for urban thoroughfares, which is very seldom done in America, and they also make free use of /place/, /walk/, /passage/, /lane/ and /circus/, all of which are obsolescent on this side of the ocean†  (source)
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