Example sentences for: moribund

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

  • The philo-traditionalists (the best of them, anyway) are bringing life and imagination to a kind of writing all but given up for moribund, and besides, they're producing a literature of American faith.

  • "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.

  • 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.”

  • If I were running the moribund Hard Rock Cafe, here's what I'd want to observe about Chinese life: restaurants + oppression = potential theme restaurants, and a magnet for investments from the usual crowd of Hollywood patsies.

  • 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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