How to Use out-of-date in a Sentence

out-of-date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  • An out-of-date timetable was fixed to the inside of the shelter.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
  • Even an out-of-date literary journal would have done the job.
    — Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Anything with frayed wires or out-of-date labels should be safely tossed.
    — Kylie Petty, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Dec. 2025
  • So did the President like his video games, like his music, out-of-date?
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The second source confirmed that out-of-date intelligence appears to have been used.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The second source confirmed that out-of-date intelligence appears to have been used.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The second source confirmed that out-of-date intelligence appears to have been used.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But in all of these cases, governments wound down the use of their out-of-date coins over a period of, often, years.
    — Ken Sweet, Fortune, 30 Oct. 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  • But not rocking the boat might mean saddling us with a costly, decrepit, out-of-date payment system for many more years to come.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
  • Many of us have been cleaning with out-of-date vacuum cleaners that don’t suck up dirt effectively.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
  • As people get more out-of-date with vaccination and the virus mutates, the risk of a severe wave becomes greater.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
  • Her Queen Olga piece was moot, of course, since the paper had run the out-of-date May 2 account.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
  • This protection is essential during the winter months for homes with ancient buildings or out-of-date units.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
  • In fact, most data systems in the modern economy, all around the globe, have shockingly out-of-date practices.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
  • Hospitals and doctors will no longer be able to argue that regulators are using out-of-date data.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
  • 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that Reinsdorf is stuck in his old ways, doesn't accept new baseball metrics and even has the team fly on an old, out-of-date plane.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
  • Some sites are more than a century old, with out-of-date plumbing and ageing materials leading to disruptions in care.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
  • 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
  • His photographs were formed from out-of-date film stock, strange exposures, erratic focus and crazy perspectives.
    — Christian House, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Nothing is as stale as an out-of-date corporate video – just think pre-Internet 1980’s.
    — Adrian Dearnell, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • This would seem to make sense since AI is rapidly changing; meanwhile, static laws often become rapidly out-of-date.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • When a whale washes ashore, the minister, who shares developments from out-of-date newspapers at mass, suggests that submarine radar could explain its fate.
    — Kristen Martin, NPR, 16 May 2024
  • But Lauterbach and Feldman say that any comparison with Amdahl's attempt is laughably out-of-date.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Charles also had one out-of-date license to operate a school bus at the time of the incident, investigators stated previously.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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

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