disuse

How To Use disuse In A Sentence

• But going back to the days when I was seeing these epics first time round, in the fleapits and bug-hutches of south-east Leeds - most of them converted music halls or disused chapels - we didn't give a hoot what the title of the film was.
• A disposer, like most appliances, once used, suffers from disuse. Houston Chronicle
• Over 300 houses have also been built there and the airfield is not disused.
• Most of the money is being used for refurbishing properties which have fallen into disrepair and disuse.
• If we ignore such factors as selection, panmixia, correlation, and the effects of use and disuse during lifetime, and still regard the case of the domestic duck as a valid proof of the inheritance of the effects of use and disuse, we must also accept it as an equally valid proof that the effects of use and disuse are _not_ inherited. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
• The maps aren’t at all accurate though, including locales which have either been knocked down over the years (great chunks during WWII), are in disuse (lots of Underground stations), are hidden from the public, or never existed at all (Hobbs Lane). 2010 April « The Graveyard
• Donaldson is accused of luring his wife into the disused house on the caravan site at Crianlarich, where he had stored a box of large fireworks.
• Through it runs a curious trackway, marked "disused" on the Highways and Byways in Surrey
• We stopped at a little hut, where we saw an old woman grinding with the quern, the ancient Highland instrument, which it is said was used by the Romans, but which, being very slow in its operation, is almost entirely gone into disuse. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
• The woman walked past the sailing club and onto the disused railway line, where she saw a man on a bicycle in front of her.