How To Use Obsolescent In A Sentence

  • Depending on where you sit, it's either a document recodifying a revolution or a relic recycling an obsolescent controversy.
  • The assets themselves are technologically obsolescent and simply too expensive and non-competitive to operate even with private sector efficiencies.
  • As with other nations in the pre-war period, the USA had short-range reconnaissance units equipped with slow and obsolescent aircraft.
  • It is a fact that Luftwaffe airmen and ground personnel won their few defensive successes towards war's end with conventional or even obsolescent weapons.
  • In fact, orality, meaning ` the quality of being oral or orally communicated, 'is already in the British vocabulary as a rare and supposed to be obsolescent word. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1
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  • Perhaps the most notorious example was Attorney General Robert Jackson's opinion (prior to the Lend-Lease Act) that existing statutes gave the President the authority to acquire from the British Government rights for the establishment of naval and air bases in exchange for over-age destroyers and obsolescent military material. Balkinization
  • Much of our existing military hardware is obsolescent.
  • The hostel at Waterbank has served a purpose for 40 years but is now obsolescent.
  • With the databases obtained from the alien refugees, they incoming ships were identified as Dreadnoughts, which are obsolescent capital cruisers.
  • Oh yes, soldiering on... "For some reason Peter and I regularly communicated in this obsolescent patois of the British Empire. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • Walt's obsolescent foreign policy is deeply rooted in the statism of a bygone era.
  • At Pearl Harbor the obsolescent American battle line had been critically disabled, thus freeing the U.S. Navy from its reliance on the capital ship and from whatever lingering faith it might have had in its pre-eminence.
  • It means that economical users will have an opportunity to invest into a modern and future-proof rather than into an obsolescent platform.
  • The gargoyles of an already obsolescent industrial revolution looked as if they too were beginning to belong to history. DISPLACED PERSON
  • The ground-to-air missiles, according to Jane's Defence, are "obsolescent" with "more propaganda than practical value".
  • Much of our existing military hardware is obsolescent.
  • Electronic equipment quickly becomes obsolescent.
  • The configuration of the old trailer was obsolescent, making it problematic for hauling some of the equipment.
  • The National Audit Office have reported that the Armed Forces are having to make do with ageing and sometimes obsolescent equipment because new systems are years behind their projected delivery dates.
  • Oh yes, soldiering on... "For some reason Peter and I regularly communicated in this obsolescent patois of the British Empire. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • A class is created of dogged self-righteous obstructionists with a vested interest in the status quo, however obsolescent, however decayed, however inappropriate to the site.
  • The gargoyles of an already obsolescent industrial revolution looked as if they too were beginning to belong to history. DISPLACED PERSON
  • Too much equipment was obsolescent, and the lack of capital investment adversely affected productivity.
  • His conventional forces, though obsolescent and suffering from shortages, are still sufficiently massive to threaten neighbors.
  • At present the civilized world is trapped somewhat in a timewarp of arguably obsolescent political, ethical, and strategic assumptions and practices.
  • The term is obsolescent, and will in time probably disappear.
  • The bulk of China's order-of-battle, however, consists of obsolescent Soviet-styled and Soviet-built equipment.
  • Althouse: "I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness... "I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness..."
  • by 'garth' meaning 'garden': a good word, and why the devil it should be obsolescent is more than I can tell you -- Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
  • Oh yes, soldiering on... "For some reason Peter and I regularly communicated in this obsolescent patois of the British Empire. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • The disappearance of some processes may be offset by an adequate technical record taken on site from those who worked in obsolescent industries.
  • I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness and adopt a pragmatic attitude for the task ahead. Archive 2007-03-01
  • In democracies the image is obsolescent: journalists face little danger (except on overseas assignments) and the press do not risk being closed down.
  • Over the past decade, the Iraqis have improvised and cannibalized their obsolescent aircraft, tanks, armored personnel carriers, and air defense network to keep them going.
  • These historians, whom Anderson labels ‘masters,’ are now considered at least partially obsolescent.
  • The Tooth Cave spider is a small, whitish, long-legged spider with obsolescent eyes.
  • I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness... Archive 2007-02-01
  • Much of our existing military hardware is obsolescent.

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