Example sentences for: moribund

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

  • 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.

  • These are scarcely moribund industries, with inflexible product and labor markets.

  • "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.

  • Mice were euthanized when they became moribund.

  • It's no accident that the rise of serious comics (or "graphic novels" as some publishers chose to call them) came at a moment when American fiction was relatively moribund.


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