How to Use disused in a Sentence

disused

adjective

• Drive up that disused side road and see if there’s somewhere good to stay.
  — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 29 June 2018
• Riffs on gluttony, pride and sloth would have wide windows in a disused space two blocks away.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2021
• The clinicians directed her through the back of the building, gave her a mask and had her wait in a disused room.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2020
• Another is when a long-disused pipe organ in the house gets played, and dust emerges with the music.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• There is a party in a disused bunker and a party in the control room of a former power plant.
  — The New Yorker, 7 June 2020
• If so, pack yourself a bug-out kit and invest in a disused bomb silo.
  — Jazz Shaw, National Review, 26 June 2021
• Today, most of the buildings in the Old Town look darkened and disused, remote from the postwar city built up around it.
  — Charly Wilder, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017
• Catford Mews, which opened in late 2019, is located in the site of a disused PoundLand.
  — Catherine Erdly, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• Sadiq had gone to clean a disused well with his elder brother Saliah.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• Monopoly break-ups are the disused weapons of antitrust.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2019
• The video shows the disused Rosevale Tin Mine in Cornwall, and hand developed in water from the mine.
  — Izzy Colón, SPIN, 17 Mar. 2022
• A few months later, the absentee landlord makes a rare visit to town and enters the disused part of the basement.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• The largest refugee camp on Samos is situated on a disused military base perched in the pine forests above Vathy.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
• Lumber mills, disused for years, sit along the roads and streams that run through Humboldt’s thickly forested hills.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
• Workers scooped out the soggy earth around a disused dry dock, leaving the concrete shell intact.
  — Justin Davidson, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
• Workers scooped out the soggy earth around a disused dry dock, leaving the concrete shell intact.
  — Justin Davidson, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• In the original film, the Ghostbusters worked out of a disused firehouse in Manhattan.
  — Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2016
• Models walked down a dark gravel runway under the metal roof of the disused steel plant in sturdy boots.
  — Thomas Adamson and Colleen Barry, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2019
• Swap your car for two wheels then bike the Monon Trail, a disused train track that has been lovingly reimagined as a recreational path.
  — Brandon Presser, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Apr. 2022
• An episode on reverb takes him to a disused underground oil tank in Scotland, home of what is probably the longest echo in the world.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 30 July 2021
• Plastic packaging has left the world swimming in disused bottles, bags and wraps.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, Houston Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2018
• The show, staged against bare concrete walls in a disused office building, put 64 exquisitely designed looks front and center.
  — Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN, 6 Oct. 2022
• Most of the testing is being conducted at a disused airfield at Manston Airport, 20 miles from Dover.
  — NBC News, 25 Dec. 2020
• More than 80 suspects were arrested in a police raid at a disused mine in Krugersdorp after reports of the rapes and robberies emerged.
  — Mogomotsi Magome, ajc, 10 Aug. 2022
• Now the Ritz is open, and Tahrir Square, which lies behind it, is newly landscaped after being blighted for years by the shell of a disused bus terminal.
  — Anthony Sattin, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2019
• With the help of funds from central government, a theatre and gallery complex is being built in a disused factory.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• Both are near Greenville, N.C. To see the up-and-running station alongside its vandalized, disused doppelganger is to glimpse a living world next to a dying one.
  — David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019
• Inhabitants can’t drink the water in nearby Cobalt Lake, and a shaft in the disused public school was only recently capped.
  — Danielle Bochove, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• While one full-scale test model is currently housed in a museum at Baikonur and one was destroyed by a roof collapse, at least one more sits in storage at the disused hangar.
  — Barry Neild and Darya Tarasova, CNN, 28 May 2021
• One song had to be composed on a sandbag, by candlelight, in a disused mortar emplacement.
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021

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