defunct - use in sentences

Preposition: for

  • year: Female equivalent of Parson's Pleasure, sadly defunct for many years.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: Research suggests this is not the case cross cultural differences usually make such skills defunct in a new environment.

Modifies a noun

  • magazine: In summer 1992 she appeared on the cover of defunct music magazine Select with Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, who memorably asked her.
  • band: A biopic of the tragic Joy Division front man is in the pipeline, with support from members of the now defunct band.
  • company: Why should MS care whether people use IE now that Netscape is a defunct company?
  • organization: Trust deeds or model schemes can give power to make appointments for new organizations but not always to remove defunct organizations from that schedule.
  • line: In 1875 the defunct line was relaid to 2ft gage and extended four miles to serve the newly opened Prince of Wales Quarry.
  • site: Please inform me of any broken links or defunct sites.

Modifying Another Word

  • sadly: Female equivalent of Parson's Pleasure, sadly defunct for many years.
  • now: Quality costume jewelry picked up the now defunct fine jewelry market.
  • virtually: Don Andrews remains the nominal leader of the virtually defunct Nationalist Party of Canada.
  • apparently: All links checked; apparently defunct links marked or removed.
  • almost: Instead it has promoted its now almost defunct front, Globalize Resistance.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: Alas, the society itself became defunct in May 2003.
  • go: Everything that had once existed, like ' Spare Rib ' , seemed to have gone defunct.

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