How to Use obsolete in a Sentence

obsolete

adjective

• The system was made obsolete by their invention.
• I was told my old printer is obsolete and I can't get replacement parts.
• Then all the games were played and the whole thing was obsolete within hours.
  — Joe Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2020
• So why does the world still know the name of gun that's been obsolete for a hundred years?
  — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
• Yet a plane becomes obsolete at a faster rate than a bridge.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• So many little dings have begun to make the rings obsolete.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 31 May 2018
• Inevitably, the best of them build tools that make other kinds of work obsolete.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• The phone will be obsolete after three years, when the major updates stop.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2022
• And if coal happens to be obsolete by then, no problem.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 26 May 2017
• Perhaps don’t be so quick to dismiss ties as stuffy and obsolete.
  — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 29 Nov. 2022
• None of this should imply that vaccines have made tests obsolete.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
• The song remains the same, but the playback device is somehow obsolete.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2020
• Yet their greatest hope of all is for a future that renders their job obsolete.
  — Vanities, 29 Mar. 2017
• This one may be stretching it a bit, but movie theaters should be obsolete.
  — Sonia Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2020
• The word, and the breed, are rapidly becoming obsolete.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 3 Oct. 2013
• In the future, though, this method could very well become obsolete.
  — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 19 Mar. 2019
• The ‘must- have' trends or the ‘in- season’ pieces feel very obsolete.
  — NBC News, 22 June 2020
• Some films have been left behind in obsolete format hell.
  — Zach Schonfeld, Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2017
• With that, every other method of imaging the brain was obsolete.
  — Edmund S. Higgins, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2021
• The ice had retreated by miles—and our map was already obsolete.
  — Douglas Fox, National Geographic, 12 Apr. 2016
• Beyond that, the very idea of Davis would become obsolete.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Its success hinges on persuading home cooks the gas stove is obsolete.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• With picks like these, your average bar of soap is going to be obsolete soon.
  — Glamour Beauty Editors, Glamour, 15 Jan. 2020
• But the singer says the true goal is that changes can be put in place so that her organization can become obsolete.
  — Essence, 26 Aug. 2021
• The idea that people need to be ready for treatment is an idea that’s made completely obsolete by this meth.
  — Jeff Eager, National Review, 7 Feb. 2022
• Tech companies that refuse to adapt for the culture will become obsolete.
  — Joan Donovan, Wired, 1 July 2020
• Some new laws are obsolete by the time they are enacted or even introduced.
  — S. Shyam Sundar, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
• Drilled and bored wells became common, along with pumps and pipes that made stepwells obsolete.
  — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
• Suddenly mules were obsolete — along with the donkeys that sired them.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• By the time a needle reaches your arm, there’s a good chance that the vaccine might be off target or obsolete.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024