How to Use outmoded in a Sentence

outmoded

adjective
  • Just like in a closet, clear out the old and outmoded for what can serve you best now.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Pulling back from an outmoded script will at least avoid further damage.
    — Zachary Karabell, Time, 17 Oct. 2022
  • From such details, the artist constructs a small, nearly outmoded world.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • The Army’s attempt to replace its outmoded Bradley tank is a case in point.
    — Elliott Negin, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Reuse honors the past by giving what’s troubled or outmoded a fresh face.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • As part of a statewide shift away from group care, most counties have moved away from the mostly outmoded shelter model.
    — Karen De Sá, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
  • That’s an even bigger challenge for an outmoded grid with fewer tools available.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Our rounded bellies and our heavy thighs in the run-resistant, outmoded styles.
    — Hélène Bessette, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Nor are these outmoded systems able to improve profit margins for lenders.
    — Geoff Green, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In some places using cash is beginning to feel as outmoded as mailing a check to pay your electric bill.
    — Town & Country, 28 Jan. 2019
  • But there is more to the story than a poor internal culture and outmoded leaders.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • But powerful forces sustain this outmoded ways of seeing the world.
    — Charles King, Time, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Both were premised on the idea of frictionless ease, liberating their users from outmoded toils.
    — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Mere weeks later, Bach's statement already sounds like the last gasp of an outmoded ideal.
    — Bruce Berglund, CNN, 5 Mar. 2022
  • But not every rocker felt so outmoded, as artists from all genres started changing their looks and sounds to fit the moment.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The jacket was a showy tweed, with outmoded leather patches on the elbows and pimpled all over with forest-green nubbles.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 14 June 2021
  • The broken stuff was supposed to be outmoded technologies and ways of doing business.
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 31 July 2018
  • The four pretty Makioka sisters embody an outmoded and rarefied way of life.
    — Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • To look at the ethnicity of a cast as a way of putting limitations on a film is completely outmoded.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Seeking beauty in everything, as Thomas did, can feel outmoded.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
  • An outmoded concept, evil was baggage from a pre-modern age, the least useful way to interpret bad behavior.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Others have simply been out of the campaigns game for a full four or more years now, so hiring them carries a risk of staffing up with outmoded, out-of-touch figures.
    — Liz Mair, Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2020
  • By contrast, Frazier took on the role of outmoded power, compliant duty.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Only in the outmoded and undemocratic Electoral College count will there be a crush.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The fundamental premise of the novel was its most quickly outmoded feature—outmoded almost from the start.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 8 June 2019
  • The bridge's ultimate fate might have more to do with becoming too outmoded for transportation a century or so from now, Sweeney said.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Well, first and foremost, the body is filled with redundant or outmoded little systems that don’t hurt anything but haven’t gone away during evolution.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 Dec. 2019
  • But other experts say that the whole notion of baseload power is an outmoded concept, predicated on old assumptions about the ways that grids work.
    — Time, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Jones’s novels derive much of their richness from her striking capacity to use literary and cultural tropes that may seem outmoded to new ends.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Leaving aside the outmoded notions of the first film (Why isn’t Arthur’s mom, Queen Atlanna, allowed to rule?
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023

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