Example sentences for: obsolete

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

  • When I was young at the bar I heard with delight an old lawyer, who could have played Dickens's Mr. Tulkinghorn, speak grandly of the court of nisi prius (pronouncing it NICEY PRY-US), an utterly obsolete Latinism for the simple trial court . Just as any speaker may, for the sake of euphony (or vanity) flourish an occasional eminence grise or mirabile dictu , may not a lawyer plume himself now and then with an ab initio or even a mutatis mutandis , not to “unite the priesthood’ but to savor his own sonority, as a bird sings also for itself?

  • When Bush suggested that fast-changing technology would quickly make any government program obsolete, McCain interjected that it was a government program that invented the Internet.

  • First, surf as a verb [1913] seems to be an abbreviation of the now obsolete surf-bathe [1906].

  • He is trying to render Gore's three-point campaign message obsolete.

  • Such hard-soft terminology is, one could argue, ideally suited to a postideological age in which other kinds of distinctions--liberal vs. conservative, right vs. wrong, nature vs. nurture--seem increasingly tiresome or obsolete.


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