How to Use out-of-date in a Sentence

out-of-date

adjective

• An out-of-date timetable was fixed to the inside of the shelter.
  — Thomas Korsgaard, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• Her Queen Olga piece was moot, of course, since the paper had run the out-of-date May 2 account.
  — Richard Byrne, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
• Even an out-of-date literary journal would have done the job.
  — Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• So did the President like his video games, like his music, out-of-date?
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
• Some of the changes clarified out-of-date terminology that was still on the books since the last time the rules were updated in 1985.
  — Bo Erickson, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2023
• As people get more out-of-date with vaccination and the virus mutates, the risk of a severe wave becomes greater.
  — Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 19 July 2024
• But the week ending November 30 is even more out-of-date than the week ending December 14.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
• But the week ending November 30 is even more out-of-date than the week ending December 14.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
• But not rocking the boat might mean saddling us with a costly, decrepit, out-of-date payment system for many more years to come.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 5 Mar. 2025
• But not rocking the boat might mean saddling us with a costly, decrepit, out-of-date payment system for many more years to come.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 5 Mar. 2025
• The article states that Reinsdorf is stuck in his old ways, doesn't accept new baseball metrics and even has the team fly on an old, out-of-date plane.
  — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 28 Sep. 2024
• Nothing is as stale as an out-of-date corporate video – just think pre-Internet 1980’s.
  — Adrian Dearnell, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Here is a list of eligible IDs, and according to the state’s website, the photo ID can be expired and have an out-of-date address.
  — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
• Here is a list of eligible IDs, and according to the state’s website, the photo ID can be expired and have an out-of-date address.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
• In fact, most data systems in the modern economy, all around the globe, have shockingly out-of-date practices.
  — Robert Lindner, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
• The program, started 51 years ago but updated little since then, is hampered by out-of-date rules, such as the limit on assets.
  — Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 8 June 2024
• Despite the lack of supplies and out-of-date facilities, some have been impressed, Haaretz reported this week.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• Many of us have been cleaning with out-of-date vacuum cleaners that don’t suck up dirt effectively.
  — Genevieve Cepeda, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
• New York City paused school board elections just hours after voting opened on Friday, following reports of invalid and out-of-date ballots.
  — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2025
• The administration’s plan also seems to be relying on an out-of-date view of the technologies of drug development and the patent system.
  — Michael Astrue, National Review, 8 Jan. 2024
• Here are the players: Employers should recognize the out-of-date skill sets in our workplace and accept that a whole flock of perfectly skilled workers is not liable to show up out of the blue anytime soon.
  — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
• There’s some slightly out-of-date aesthetic fussiness at Café Carmellini, especially at the beginning of the meal.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2024
• Some sites are more than a century old, with out-of-date plumbing and ageing materials leading to disruptions in care.
  — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• The problem comes from out-of-date standard deduction amounts for married and single tax filers in the 2023 tax bill language, according to the Department of Revenue.
  — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
• There’s nothing worse for a CEO or customer than trying to jump right in with out-of-date information or without an accurate picture of what’s going on.
  — Allbusiness, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• Turing’s lecture notes are in effect a textbook, terse and selective, on advanced math for circuit engineers, although now very out-of-date, of course.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2025
• Turing’s lecture notes are in effect a textbook, terse and selective, on advanced math for circuit engineers, although now very out-of-date, of course.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2025
• This protection is essential during the winter months for homes with ancient buildings or out-of-date units.
  — Connie Etemadi, Freep.com, 17 Jan. 2026
• Anything with frayed wires or out-of-date labels should be safely tossed.
  — Kylie Petty, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Dec. 2025
• Hospitals and doctors will no longer be able to argue that regulators are using out-of-date data.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025