How to Use obsolete in a Sentence

obsolete

1 of 2 adjective
  • The system was made obsolete by their invention.
  • I was told my old printer is obsolete and I can't get replacement parts.
  • It is filled with the old and obsolete.
    — Roger Van Zanen, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The revered role would be obsolete.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The goal is to become obsolete at some point.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Then all the games were played and the whole thing was obsolete within hours.
    — Joe Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2020
  • None of this makes systems of record obsolete.
    — Andy Kohm, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Some tasks will become obsolete, new ones will emerge.
    — Becky Frankiewicz, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • What remains — what seems, alas, less obsolete — is the hate.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 June 2026
  • In that sense, thinking is not obsolete.
    — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The man who ran this antique was, in a way, as obsolete as the machine.
    — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The man who ran this antique was, in a way, as obsolete as the machine.
    — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The end goal here is that most of what humans do becomes obsolete.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The ‘must- have' trends or the ‘in- season’ pieces feel very obsolete.
    — NBC News, 22 June 2020
  • This one may be stretching it a bit, but movie theaters should be obsolete.
    — Sonia Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Perhaps don’t be so quick to dismiss ties as stuffy and obsolete.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Inevitably, the best of them build tools that make other kinds of work obsolete.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • None of this should imply that vaccines have made tests obsolete.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Within the next two decades, these jobs too had become obsolete.
    — Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Yet strides in longevity have made his model is obsolete.
    — Klaus Schwab, Time, 1 Mar. 2026
  • In the future, though, this method could very well become obsolete.
    — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 19 Mar. 2019
  • Yet their greatest hope of all is for a future that renders their job obsolete.
    — Vanities, 29 Mar. 2017
  • With picks like these, your average bar of soap is going to be obsolete soon.
    — Glamour Beauty Editors, Glamour, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The signal in the sell-off was not that advisors are obsolete.
    — Carrie McCabe, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The phone will be obsolete after three years, when the major updates stop.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The ice had retreated by miles—and our map was already obsolete.
    — Douglas Fox, National Geographic, 12 Apr. 2016
  • The models that exist today will be obsolete in a year.
    — Matt Shumer, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Its success hinges on persuading home cooks the gas stove is obsolete.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The Ukraine war is not making the defense primes obsolete.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

obsolete

2 of 2 verb
  • Why would SpaceX want to obsolete its own, dominant products?
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 May 2018
  • The obsolete won’t be obsoleted.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Issuing passwords is simple, low-cost and can obsolete several pages from the cyber criminal's playbook.
    — Rob Cheng, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • However, today's smart grid requires a level of data agility and scalability that these aging systems simply can't provide, and most manufacturers are obsoleting them.
    — Thanseer Ahammed Ootikkal, Forbes.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Traditional curricula are being obsoleted faster than ever before.
    — Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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