Defunct

//ˌdiˈfʌŋkt//

"Defunct" in a Sentence (12 examples)

If you look over there, you can see a defunct water tower.

The project is now defunct.

Tom lives down the road from a defunct granary.

The campground was defunct.

This whole effort started with a decision to landscape the roof of a defunct kindergarten instead of kicking up dust to build a new one.

The statue stood as a remnant of a defunct civilization.

[T]he engineer must solve the mysteries of boiler accidents by studying defunct structures of many different types.

When a language dies members of the culture of which that language was once a part may attempt to hold on to their linguistic heritage, if not by the use of the defunct language itself, at least by the preservation of its script.

The organs, though defunct and dead before, / Break up their drowsy grave and newly move

Morgante at a venture shot an arrow, / Which pierced a pig precisely in the ear, / And passed unto the other side quite through; / So that the boar, defunct, lay tripped up near.

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A small tablet is fixt near the Altar, upon wᶜʰ the friends of yᵉ defunct lay their offerings in mony according to their own ability and the quality of the person deceased.

[…] he saw Robert Johnston, pannel, come out of the cott-house with the fork in his hand, and pass by Alexander Fall and the deponent; heard the pannell say, he had sticked the dog, and he would stick the whelps too; whereupon the pannell run after the defunct’s son with the fork in his hand, […]

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