How to Use disuse in a Sentence

disuse

noun
Definition of disusenext
Synonyms for disusenext
  • 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
  • What good’s power, after all, if its disuse leaves the public unoppressed?
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 16 July 2022
  • 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

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