Example sentences for: obsolete

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

  • But instead of running lotteries or using disappearing ink, most publishers make used textbooks obsolete by periodically releasing revised editions.

  • This book, the title of which suggests that it might deal with dictionaries, is a dictionary of difficult, unusual, often obscure, obsolete words, a combination of Poplollies and Bellibones , by Mrs. Heifetz, and The New York Times Everyday Reader's Dictionary of Misunderstood ...

  • 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.

  • Once too many people have cracked the code — most important, when those who have done so are in some way opposed to the anti-language's users — the language becomes obsolete and dies.

  • One is a sex maniac, the other a genetic researcher who seeks through cloning to make sex obsolete.


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