Usar "moribund" en una oración

1. What had once been a thriving, busy place was now moribund

2. That approach was a manifest failure, as evidenced by the moribund economies of those states, as well as the out-migration of very valuable workers and entrepreneurs from those states

3. As these people were also proud, they wanted to pay off their debt and if someone else in the family became ill before their earlier debt was paid off, they would often delay coming back to the hospital with the newly sick child or woman until they were very sick and sometimes even moribund

4. The young woman lit a kerosene lamp she was using in order not to wake up her sisters; a peculiar smell flooded the suffocated enclosure and began to melt with the local moribund aromas

5. After she left, Leonardo approached for me to find out how I was feeling, doing his best effort to talk with me courteously, at least in the presence of his father, or just because as my end was near he tried to throw at me the pity of the moribund

6. The witch observed her hand and by the whole place there was heard a colossal shriek as that of a hurt and moribund animal

7. As a result of all this, the Israeli economy had been hit hard, with its important tourist industry all but moribund now, the potential tourists scared away by the bombardments, and with its agricultural produces left to rot in warehouses, their usual export buyers now keeping their distances

8. What with the deprived social patronage adding to their economic woes, they became moribund to end up being the parasites and it is probable that the prejudices that bedevil the Hindu spirituality might have been the products of the idle minds in those lazy Brahman bodies

9. This could be the reason they are doing everything within their powers to re-enact the abominable acts that characterised the moribund Sodomic era, including sponsoring false religious organisations that engage in Sodomic ecstasy during worships

10. It was also the city of the great Greek poet Constantine Kavafy, of Glafkos Alithersis (my godfather) another important poet; Stratis Tsirkas and Nicos Nicolaides, significant novelists and short story writers; Dimitris Litsas and Mikis Matsakis, both of them artists, painters and church hagiographers of a thriving Greek community with its churches, hospitals, newspapers and schools, now empty and moribund

11. It is ironical that a funeral should revive a longing that was nearly moribund

12. Our marriage has been moribund for years

13. Just better class apartment buildings, a few of which sported a courtyard and some isolated mansions with moribund gardens that had not seen a gardener in a decade

14. Budgets were tight and tourism had not come into its own with all the international hotel chains rushing in to build new towers and refurbish old and famous but moribund hotels such as the Mena House facing the great pyramid, the Semiramis and Omar Khayam on

15. President Kennedy established the President’s Task Force on Health and Social Security and funneled resources into the moribund and obscure Department of Mental Retardation, then a small office within the Department of Education

16. Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius (alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity

17. The first took place as far back as 1921, when Walter Chrysler took command of the almost moribund Maxwell Motors, and in a few years made it a large and highly profitable enterprise, while numerous other automobile companies were forced out of business

18. Above all, even if you allow that this organization is necessary, why do you believe it to be your duty to maintain it at the cost of your best feelings? Who has made you the nurse in charge of this sick and moribund organization? Not society nor the state nor anyone; no one has asked you to undertake this; you who fill your position of landowner, merchant, tzar, priest, or soldier know very well that you occupy that position by no means with the unselfish aim of maintaining the organization of life necessary to men's happiness, but simply in your own interests, to satisfy your own covetousness or vanity or ambition or indolence or cowardice