OBSOLETE in a Sentence
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14 example sentences for OBSOLETE, such as:
1. You have to follow these obsolete fossilized ways.
2. It was an obsolete thing, and few cared to study it.
3. New technology has rendered my old computer obsolete.
4. Gas lamps became obsolete when electric lighting was invented.
5. This obscure, obsolete, superseded country figures in Domesday.
2. It was an obsolete thing, and few cared to study it.
3. New technology has rendered my old computer obsolete.
4. Gas lamps became obsolete when electric lighting was invented.
5. This obscure, obsolete, superseded country figures in Domesday.
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Meanings and Examples of OBSOLETE
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obsolete
a. no longer in use
Classic Sentence:
1 And sex was merely an accident, or an adjunct, one of the curious obsolete, organic processes which persisted in its own clumsiness, but was not really necessary.
2 This obscure, obsolete, superseded country figures in Domesday.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
3 He is a curious, interesting, and nearly perished link between obsolete forms of life and those which generally prevail.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
4 It was an obsolete thing, and few cared to study it.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
5 But I omit them as altogether obsolete; and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing.
6 But this custom has now become obsolete; turn we then to the one proper mast-head, that of a whale-ship at sea.
7 Lap, in the old obsolete language, signifies high; and untuh, a governor; from which they say, by corruption, was derived Laputa, from Lapuntuh.
8 There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house.
9 These utterly obsolete personages were served by domestics of the same stamp.
Example Sentence:
1 But the content is very difficult to locate, and often in obsolete video formats.
2 We are tolerably conversant with the early English poets; and can discover no resemblance whatever, except in antiquated spelling and a few obsolete words.
3 You have to follow these obsolete fossilized ways.
4 New technology has rendered my old computer obsolete.
5 Gas lamps became obsolete when electric lighting was invented.