How to Use disuse in a Sentence

disuse

noun

• The room was dusty from disuse.
• Beneath the dirt and disuse of the Uvalde home are signs of the home’s past grandeur.
  — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Apr. 2018
• The good news is that the heart can bounce back after disuse.
  — Alice Park, Time, 8 Jan. 2018
• In the two and half decades since, MORC 2 has fallen prey to disuse and neglect.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 2018
• But disuse and the grinding gears of time forced them out of service 12 years ago.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
• If none of this ever came to pass, Davis would languish from disuse.
  — Palma Joy Strand, Slate Magazine, 19 Sep. 2017
• The practice of keeping the body in the urn has not fallen into complete disuse.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
• A light rail system built for the Sochi Olympics now lays in disuse as investors abandon their shares.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 3 Apr. 2017
• But most had gone into disuse, overgrown by fields and forests – until the 1990s.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2021
• The floors and walls are wooden, and chairs and tables are arranged in a manner that suggests years of disuse.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 12 Sep. 2022
• Bang Pa-In, a summer palace built in the 1880s on top of an older palace that had fallen into disuse.
  — Lawrence Osborne, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2021
• But this wouldn’t be the first time the vacancies of the city itself, the disuse of so much square footage in the wake of Covid-19, lingered eerily at the fringes of every poignant tableau.
  — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 26 May 2022
• Our jaws are now smaller and weaker from disuse, our teeth more crowded and crooked.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
• Most of the few cars in the underground garage are caked in grayish dust, their tires long since deflated by years of disuse.
  — Connor Sheetsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• The air was cold down there, and musty from a combination of old electronics and disuse.
  — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 28 May 2018
• But the gains decline to 60 cents if, as often happens, the new social norms fail to take hold and the latrines fall into disuse.
  — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
• Over the years, the structures and murals of Storyland fell into disuse.
  — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2019
• Over the years, the Venetian gondolas were sold off, and the Las Colinas canals fell into disuse.
  — Dallas News, 22 July 2022
• His tribe was known as Catawba, and their language, from which words like Ye Iswąˀ had come, had fallen into disuse.
  — John Paul Brammer, NBC News, 8 May 2017
• In the city, some public high school campuses have pools, but in last two decades, many have fallen into disuse.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2022
• After years in disuse, Gia Hoa Ryan revived the building as an events and cultural space.
  — Jordyn Grzelewski, cleveland.com, 7 June 2019
• The wildcat notes, which once fueled frontier cities’ economies, fell into disuse.
  — Declan Harty, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
• The cast was rusty, and needed to re-rehearse the show, while the crew needed to assess each piece of equipment for possible damage after months of disuse.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
• Bales of wire, rusted gates and a smattering of broken furniture lie about in disuse.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
• To be clear, these technologies are in no way a substitute for the smarter use of water—or really, disuse of water.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 18 Oct. 2021
• Momentum for the project ended with the Olympics, and Rio’s venues have since fallen into disuse and disrepair — a fate shared with other Olympic sites.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2021
• When the man who cared for the land and animals became ill, the area fell into disuse and residents started disposing of their garbage there.
  — Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2022
• The law had not fallen into disuse; a man had been sentenced to a ten-month term in 2012 for facetiously comparing a famous monk to a pasta dish.
  — The Economist, 25 Aug. 2019
• Many acequias fell into disuse around the 1960s, when Spain turned to an agricultural model that favored reservoirs and pushed many Spaniards to leave rural areas for cities.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• But over the years, China has undercut prices in the sometimes-expensive extraction and refinement process so that many of these sources have fallen into disuse, including the huge germanium mine in the United States.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024