How to Use unused in a Sentence

unused

adjective

• I have four days of unused vacation time left.
• The library has been unused for 10 years.
• To help with the mortgage, the Google duo paid them $1,700 a month to rent unused space.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2024
• The movie, quite bad, leaves no sports movie cliché unused.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
• And that is a kind of under-the-radar tax on the unused car market.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2022
• Any green cards that go unused by the end of a fiscal year go to waste.
  — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• The name had been lying around unused for 20 years at that point.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
• The soccer ball will light up when kicked or bounced, and the lights will turn off when unused.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 21 Nov. 2023
• And a large portion of the money that is set aside for child care goes unused.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• What happens to the money when a gift card goes unused?
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023
• And there may be as much as 1 billion square feet of unused U.S. office space by the end of the decade, the report shows.
  — Bysydney Lake, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
• The barn has been largely unused for the last several years.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023
• Hatred leads all the unused clones of Hank and Dean into battle to aid Brock.
  — Mat Olson, Vulture, 19 July 2023
• Following the fires, unused rental cars piled up on the airport lawn.
  — Jack Kiyonaga, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2023
• The gym, which had sat quiet and mostly unused for the past decade, caught fire Wednesday night.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2022
• Broad Creek at botton, the horse stable (unused) is at top-left.
  — Jason Fontelieu, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2022
• This unused grass covers an area roughly 12 times the size of Griffith Park.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• This way, unused items don't pile up and take up valuable storage space.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 1 Feb. 2023
• Our tester loved this pillow, but her only qualm was having to store the unused fill.
  — Ashley Zlatopolsky, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 2024
• One place where unused files can build up is in your Downloads folder.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
• Huntzinger even managed to find a set of original, unused 1942 Firestone tires to shod the front and rear wheels.
  — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2022
• By default, the bar included links for Gmail, Chat, Spaces, and Meet... and a whole lot of unused white space.
  — Samuel Axon and Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2022
• The days of unused spot-up shooters may not yet be over; but the days of spacial revolution lie ahead, and Hardy and the Jazz could lead the way.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
• The team found a fire water main that had frozen and burst in an unused portion of the building’s ground floor, flooding the ground floor and basement.
  — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2024
• But, if the neighboring stall is unused, then one of the Balanced charges can provide 350 kW.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 12 Sep. 2022
• My body rebelled against the stillness of my days, unused to sitting, to silence.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
• That meant that groups of up to 12 had to huddle around the captain at the helm or cram into the aft cockpit, leaving about half of the boat’s space unused.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2022
• At the end of the war, unused and unexploded bombs and chemical weapons had to be disposed of.
  — Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2023
• Through the program’s first two years, the agency couldn’t gather enough applications to award all the planning dollars, meaning about $200 million was sitting unused at the start of this year.
  — Austin Fast, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
• Take a cue from Japanese design and shoot for minimal luxury by cleaning out unused items from your closet and tucking away any clutter on your nightstands or near your bed.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024