Example sentences for: moribund

How can you use “moribund” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It looks moribund.

  • Once considered a model of social scientific method and a source of broad insights into the way people live, the discipline had become directionless, intellectually moribund, and hopelessly overspecialized, with departments across the country scaling back or disappearing altogether.

  • One might well counter that words containing those elements are therefore not common enough to merit inclusion, but is that suffi- cient reason to omit - mane words ( balletomane ), - bund words ( moribund ), and all words ending in - phobe or - phile ? I believe that to create a truly useful work, even acknowledging its restrictions, the author should have considered matters other than raw frequency, the criterion applied for “use in the classroom or at home.”

  • The political movements that support English as an official language are not threatened by Breton, Basque, or Boontling (a moribund argot spoken in a town in Northern California).

  • "For more than a year it has been customary to say that the peace talks are blocked, paralyzed, in grave danger, moribund," the paper's Jerusalem correspondent wrote Monday.


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