kaput

Example Sentences

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With less than a month of games remaining, the Lakers season is done, finished, kaput.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Jerry Seinfeld, who presumably knows a thing or two about show business, has said the film industry as currently constituted is kaput, even if Tinseltown has been slow to understand what’s happened in recent decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

His latest acquisition is a spider that, unbeknown to Kaleb, was smuggled from a Middle Eastern desert after rendering one of its captors agonizingly kaput.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024

"Don't worry about this Rwanda issue. It is kaput," he claimed.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2024

And then I think, does she mean “finished,” as in kaput, over and done with, out of commission?

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech