out of commission

Example Sentences

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FedEx, too, will mostly be out of commission, though its Custom Critical services will be up and running.

From Barron's

The Palisades fire put three campuses out of commission in the nation’s second-largest school system.

From Los Angeles Times

“This one’s gone, that one’s gone and this little guy’s almost out of commission. You see where it’s coming apart right here?”

From Los Angeles Times

I thought I was gonna be out of commission for 18 months or two years — that’s what I was told.

From Los Angeles Times

He’d heard about the bus shortage — roughly three-quarters of the department’s inmate transport buses were out of commission — and wondered if that kind of large-scale evacuation was really possible.

From Los Angeles Times