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.
The door of the barn looked between the end of the cottage and some disused piggeries through a five-barred gate upon the highroad. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
The ankle high grass that surrounds the building and the closed doors and windows indicated past and current disuse respectively.
Plans are also afoot to transform the disused salt mines of Saxony and Thuringia into depositories for toxic waste.
He also warned of the perils of disused quarries. The Sun
Whatever hitting skills these transient players once had are now atrophied from disuse.
Her muscles had become weak through disuse.
The Catacombs Project plans to refurbish the disused buildings under the church, which is a protected structure.
We wanted a studio or an old warehouse but when we found a disused hospital it was great.
The route was once much travelled but has fallen into disuse.
It's a mixture of habitable buildings, several disused farms, cowsheds and what was probably once a pigsty.
It's a trend that has given a new lease of life to neglected race tracks and disused airfields up and down the country and boosted rural employment. Times, Sunday Times
It is a depopulated metropolis, with cheap rents and disused factories making for ample gallery space and throbbing, packed-to-thegills clubs. Times, Sunday Times
Since the economic downturn there has been an increase in the use of disused warehouses for production. The Sun
From here continue for another 1.5 km and you will see, en route, disused limekilns, the old pack horse bridge and remnants of the old charcoal burning sites all these feature are posted en route.
A flasher has indecently exposed himself to two teenage girls in Broadway as they cycled near a disused railway bridge.
Officials said the most likely source was a main at a disused factory. The Sun
Considering filly the infection of water to jet and the structure characteristic of oil wells be disused in shallow sea. Design linear shaped charge cutters of answer for the fact.
The Motive Power depot at Derby Road had been disused since 1966 when the last steam locomotives were withdrawn from service.
As they'd noted, this area had a somewhat disused look to it, for the floor was covered with a conglomeration of dirt, guano and silt interspersed with crumbling bits of masonry or fallen pillars.
Allegedly, on July 22 the man used sodium dichloroisocyanurate and sawdust to fumigate a disused air-raid shelter he planned to use for planting mushrooms.
The Bund Signal Tower, which fell into disuse over 100 years ago, is to be pressed into service again.
The nuclear waste is encased in concrete before being sent for storage in disused mines.
Raytheon has developed a technology for safely detonating all the landmines in disused landmine fields -- they drop a shell containing many hundreds of steel arrows into the field, which sets off all the old mines: Boing Boing: November 27, 2005 - December 3, 2005 Archives
Community schemes enable voluntary groups to look after disused areas of Network Rail land, such as disused platforms, land adjoining stations, or areas underneath viaducts. EDP24 News
From old primary schools to disused blocks of flats and old hospitals, these properties are often in desirable city locations. The Sun
The disused school building could be a centre for the community to meet and for visitors to gather.
Council housing lists were long and slow-moving, and some desperate families squatted in disused Army huts in the hope of qualifying for a council house sooner.
Today, 1pm The rangers of Chatelherault Country Park in South Lanarkshire lead a day of exploration inside a disused coal bing in search of signs of mining life, wildlife and plant life.
Running along a disused railway line for 1.45 miles, it was originally designed to carry freight from the docks. The Sun
These are clues, but all are disconnected by their season of disuse.
And they have just completed a deal to buy the disused Grand Hotel on the Marine Promenade to give that a facelift.
If she has got this wrong, it could prove so costly that she may need a disused mine to hide in. Times, Sunday Times
A fifth is planned for a disused printworks called the McCormick Building, which backs on to the Mas nightclub in Royal Exchange Square, in the centre of the city's shopping district.
It uses an Underground tunnel which had been disused for many years.
The transformation from a largely disused industrial wasteland is total, but the makeover is not quite complete. Times, Sunday Times
Our son found his way into a disused cesspit and then, going barefoot, picked up an infection, which required regular injections in his backside.
I actually found a disused military shelter left over from WWII near my house the other day.
This was all in high school, and years of disuse and neglect have made my Spanish skills rustier than a Gary, Indiana steel mill.
From the outside it still looks a bit like the disused airfield it once was. Times, Sunday Times
They had pointed out that the disused railway yard chosen as the scene of the party was too small. Times, Sunday Times
The trail follows a disused railroad line along the edge of the valley.
Walkers will then turn right up the old disused famine road, across the spectacular and beautiful Lagan Hill.
We shot the second episode in an old disused ironworks at night, which was just horrible.
At least three cruise liners with hotel rooms will be anchored in disused docks on the Thames, alongside many smaller boats and barges offering accommodation. Times, Sunday Times
Firefighters were called out at 4.40 pm and a hosepipe was connected across the main road to a water main as firefighters succeeded in preventing the blaze from spreading to nearby disused buildings.
Let me hope that I have not so completely failed in my aim, while firing my small shot against certain abuses and disuses connected with The The Bed-Book of Happiness
One MP out here with me at the UK-China Forum for the Future branded it "a cross between a stealth bomber and a disused skate park".
A group of local residents and business owners are calling on the council to urgently reopen a disused mill lade and culvert to its full capacity.
He had an arts scholarship and painted huge oil canvases in a disused squash court. Times, Sunday Times
I thought it best if we met in a disused warehouse. The Sun
Beside the cafe was a disused swimming pool. Broken Lives
A teenager died when he fell through the roof of a disused warehouse while playing with his friends.
Beside the cafe was a disused swimming pool. Broken Lives
The nuclear waste is encased in concrete before being sent for storage in disused mines.
OURNEYING toward the upper course of the Capilano River, about a mile citywards from the dam, you will pass a disused logger's shack. Legends of Vancouver
The works will include restoration of dry-stone walling; tree planting; building of stiles; regeneration of woodland and turning a disused quarry into an amenity area.
A man was electrocuted in an attempt to steal cable from a disused asylum, a coroner heard. Times, Sunday Times
I was forced to sleep rough that night in a disused warehouse.
It is two decades since Martin and Lizzie Graham, opera-loving entrepreneurs of the most down-to-earth yet dreamy variety, started staging opera in a disused cowshed. Die Walküre; Siegfried; BBC Proms 23, 26 & 27 – review
He had become trapped between a disused fishing boat and the dock wall. The Sun
In addition, I have started on some abdominals and have dusted off my ab wheel which was becoming more of a piece of garbage on account of disuse.
Disused and neglected, the hall was invaded by squatters who occupied the building until it was gutted by a fire in 2002, which killed five people.
The hoisting beam still jutted out from the roof but its wheel had long since rusted from years of disuse. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
The disused school building could be a centre for the community to meet and for visitors to gather.
Only real spiritual power has become rusty through prolonged disuse.
Three were killed in competitions or practices, four race fans died on the roads and one biker died in an accident at a disused airfield. The Sun
The trail follows a disused railroad line along the edge of the valley.
In the east of the island there are two ruined cottages, a disused graveyard and the site of a cross and oratory plus several drystone walled fields once used for tillage.
Initially he focused on small scale residential conversions but Kennedy's big breakthrough came with the purchase of a disused Baptist church in Edinburgh's Dublin Street.
At least three cruise liners with hotel rooms will be anchored in disused docks on the Thames, alongside many smaller boats and barges offering accommodation. Times, Sunday Times
After collecting the cash, the kidnapper made his escape down the disused railway line.
Luckily, it's just a one-mile walk from here along the disused trackbed. Times, Sunday Times
It remains the case, however, that the term itself has fallen largely into disuse, especially within professional circles.
A little dumping was noted, apparently a bag of some sort of disused building material.
We walked past equipment from disused stone quarries along the way. Times, Sunday Times
Players become shallow and lazy as important parts of their game wither and atrophy from disuse.
The factory fell into disuse twenty years ago.
A gutsy group of Ukrainians has made the world's first underground balloon ascent in a disused coal mine in Doneck.
It could have remained that way, disused and neglected, gathering dust and cobwebs.
I drew in a deep breath and then stretched and heard my joints crackle from disuse. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The water and blackdamp came from disused workings adjoining the mine.
The hoisting beam still jutted out from the roof but its wheel had long since rusted from years of disuse. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
Oil wells that be disused in shallow sea are severe to affect sea-route. cannot cut off it effectively by dynamite commonly. and water affect jet a certain extent.
In accordance with the Report of the Public Service Commission (1886-7) the terms 'covenanted' and 'uncovenanted' have been disused. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
There were always stories about the Russian prisoners of war in the disused factory beyond the brewery. Bomber
They kept referring to the site as high unspoilt fell, ignoring that it is on the side of a disused quarry above a busy road. Times, Sunday Times
The cause of a blaze that destroyed a disused furniture warehouse yesterday afternoon was unknown. Times, Sunday Times
The transformation from disused docks into city-centre cultural venue took three years.
The path zigzagged through the now disused Caw Quarry, first past a stone hut and then past the opening of an old level.
There is such a thing as rudimen - tary organs which served functions long since fallen in disuse and now unremembered. The Kempton-Wace Letters
We want to make sure that disused railways are protected from development which would make it harder to bring them back into use.
The cause of a blaze that destroyed a disused furniture warehouse yesterday afternoon was unknown. Times, Sunday Times
Now after many years of disuse, it will be a centre celebrating the unique cultural wealth of the Irish and Irish in America.
“The country not immediately the seat of either party is richer than when the war began,” he complained, “but the long disuse of taxes, and their natural unpalatableness, have embarrassed the business exceedingly, and Tories, grumbling Whigs, and party, have all thrown in their aid to increase the discontent.” Robert Morris
It may be disused fitness equipment, untouched kitchen gadgets or scores of unwanted CDs and books.
Over the years the green fell into disuse and became gradually hidden under thick layers of leaves.
The transformation from disused docks into city-centre cultural venue took three years.
To maintain the differential, extra bands would need to be added at the top end of the scale, whilst lopping off those disused bands at the bottom, which is ludicrous.
Hidden away between a popular pub and a disused former bank it is an inauspicious, unimpressive building in the shadows of Aberdeen city centre.
The ‘right to humanitarian interference’ might be described as a sort of ‘return to sender’: the disused rights that had been sent to the rightless are sent back to the senders.
It was revived yesterday after years of disuse to coincide with the opening of the area's new police headquarters at Whitebirk.
A man was electrocuted in an attempt to steal cable from a disused asylum, a coroner heard. Times, Sunday Times
The castle was then a disused, grade II listed building that had unsympathetically been turned into four holiday flats.
Derelict and disused buildings are favourite targets, as are billboards, road signs and bus stops.
That seemed a bit lacking in heft, so I bulked it out with a random handful of paper from a disused notebook, put our names on it, stapled the pile up, and turned it in.
They were all three with the round-up, and were making a circle through the Bad Lands; the wagons had camped on the eastern edge of these Bad Lands, where they merged into the prairie, at the head of an old disused road, which led about due east from the Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
Over the years many local residents have been using the disused track for walks, exercising their horses and dogs, jogging or just to admire the natural beauty of the area.
Together with his co-founders, they received a grant to convert a disused swimming pool into a theatre.
No longer a place just for hiding disused tools and miscellaneous junk, it can be a standalone design feature or positioned to blend into your plot. Times, Sunday Times
However, the ancient Egyptians, who made good bread themselves, did not abandon barley; and it did not fall into general disuse.
'As ignorant as a ploughboy,' is a phrase fallen into disuse. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
The leafstalks and stem bases were formerly blanched like celery, but as a vegetable it has fallen into disuse.
Graffiti covered it at ground level, protecting the building with an air of disuse like a fence made of spray paint. VITALS
Beneath the site there were some disused mine shafts leading to old coal workings which, unknown to the defendants, were connected to the plaintiff's mine.
The disused warehouse opened in 1985 and became a legendary venue. The Sun
A disused church hall next to Carshalton Library was gutted by fire in a suspected arson attack around 3.40 pm on Sunday.
From old primary schools to disused blocks of flats and old hospitals, these properties are often in desirable city locations. The Sun
He had an arts scholarship and painted huge oil canvases in a disused squash court. Times, Sunday Times
MEAGAN, BROOKEWOOD STUDENT: The mayor thinks that we sort of didn't - disuses or abuses it and scared the little kids, but I don't really think we did. CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2009
The characters were neither easy to write nor graceful, and after Pagspa's death his invention fell into disuse and was replaced by an enlarged and modified form of the Uigur alphabet. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
I knew there was a barn and a shed for silage; these must be to the other side of the house, with the farm's granary and the henyard, kailyard, and disused chapel. Sick Cycle Carousel
Residents and community groups are being asked to put forward suggestions for the future use of a disused Bradford church.
Darwin set the notion of disuse to one side and focused more confidently on his main subject, natural selection. The Song of The Dodo
In modern cities, Plato's idea of banishing artists is almost achieved through economic means, with many forced to live and work in low-rent premises such as garrets, lofts, and disused warehouses.
You don't have to inhabit a disused paper mill or a converted printworks to love industrial style. Times, Sunday Times
GUPTA: There is something known as disuse atrophy, though. CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2005
I parted some grass and wondered why Cawthorne had bothered to run electric and telephone cables to a disused toilet for farmhands.
Ambitious plans to transform a disused piece of land in York into a fully-equipped community sports and recreation facility have moved a step closer to reality.
The disused temporary school building has already been brought from Bridlington to York, and leaders are preparing to bring in engineers and a crane to hoist the four-part structure into place.
Many large-scale competitor data bases, especially those on mainframes, have fallen into disuse.
If the term inspiration were to fall into disuse, no fact of nature, or history, or language, no event in the life of man, or dealings of God with him, would be in any degree altered. Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell.
There were scores of them yesterday, hanging around on the steps beside the takeaway, skulking outside Bow Church gates and lurking on the traffic island by the disused public conveniences.
So many need to be held onto that thousands are kept at a disused salt mine in Kent. Times, Sunday Times
Plans are also afoot to transform the disused salt mines of Saxony and Thuringia into depositories for toxic waste.
The works consist of building a new corridor linking the main building to the disused Telephone Exchange in the rear yard.
The disused railway station at Crouch End had a stagey eeriness, even on a bright hot day; and the abandoned play park was so dilapidated that you could almost sense the accident-claim lawyers lurking in the trees.
Sites investigated included a disused railway tunnel and bogland in Nad.
They and their disused railway lines remind us of wealth in the last century - but unemployment during the last 50 years.
Château, close to Ypres, and the Transport to a disused brickfield west of Vlamertinghe. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
I have no doubt that the disuse of the fife and drum by one regiment after another, until they have become practically obsolete in our service, has been due to this very difficulty of providing adequate material and training.
But listen, when it comes to aging, there is something known as disuse atrophy -- just simply not using your muscles. CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2005
Winging scapula secondary to traumatic trapezius muscle disuse atrophy was diagnosed.
Through simple disuse and lack of feedback, she may stop conjuring up stories.
Running along a disused railway line for 1.45 miles, it was originally designed to carry freight from the docks. The Sun
Suppose that they had seriously endeavored, and had succeeded in the endeavor, to banish the word disinterestedness from the language; had obtained the disuse of all expressions attaching odium to selfishness or commendation to self-sacrifice, or which implied generosity or kindness to be any thing but doing a benefit in order to receive a greater personal advantage in return. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
You need nerves of steel and a large dose of blind faith to pull off a party in a disused, underground tube station.
It has been theorized that changes in everyday experiences and activity patterns may result in disuse and consequent atrophy of cognitive processes and skills.
The factory fell into disuse twenty years ago.
They have been given a grant to convert the disused church into luxury flats.
Arriving in disused cellars, you find you are part of a team of eight survivors, on the run from a brutal alien invader. Times, Sunday Times
Carp is set to take over a disused part of the garden of Marden House and incorporate it into Castlefields Park.
They are also tied into contracts that stretch beyond 2012 for business parks, wind farms and the media city in Salford and are also responsible for dozens of contaminated industrial sites, such as disused coal fields, which cannot be sold unless they are first decommissioned. Government's 'bonfire of the quangos' plan will cost as much as it saves
The band's first gig was in a friend's bedroom and their next was in a disused warehouse in Glasgow.
Perhaps Walt Disney and Madame Tussaud were inspired by places like this, but the Capuchin crypt will not remind you of their worlds, for in spite of all the talk about the great lengths the monks have gone to in order to create lifelike effects, it feels like somewhere that fell into disuse long ago. Boing Boing
He went ahead with storm preparations, elevating the bed on old boards which he lugged from a disused barn falling to decay on the opposite bank of the creek. CHAPTER IV
It was initially adopted by the Greeks as koppa, to represent /k/ before a back vowel; but classical Greek preferred the letter kappa, the ancestor of K, and koppa fell into disuse.
It's a mixture of habitable buildings, several disused farms, cowsheds and what was probably once a pigsty.
She told her that Edward had gone into the hay-loft, above the old, disused shippon. The Moorland Cottage
Grown on a disused china clay pit, the project has helped regenerate the area.
Threats of the same treatment prevented refractory congregations from using disused churches they had hired for private worship.
A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale.
A disused Victorian toilet block, with many of the original fixtures and fittings still in tact.
The developers envisage this site being developed for mixed use, while new buildings to be constructed on disused backland.
Home territory is the disused runway at the Dalton Barracks in Abingdon.
Last year the police inquiry into Suzy's disappearance was briefly reopened when they searched a disused Army camp near Worcester.
Swaythling Housing Society has submitted a planning application to the council to build 12 three-storey town houses, three two-storey homes and eight flats on a car park and disused shopping precinct adjacent to St Helier Place.
The 35-year-old father lay dead nearby at the bottom of a disused quarry. The Sun
They had pointed out that the disused railway yard chosen as the scene of the party was too small. Times, Sunday Times
In the far corner was a bed and, beside this, slumped like a disused doll, lay the witch.
The scenery couldn't match what had come earlier and, as the trail began to intertwine with a disused railway line, so the signs disappeared.
The Rajah is without authority, and even his name disused in the official instruments issued or taken by the manager. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)
Yellow Mongoose dens are usually disused burrows left by other animals such as antbears or spring hares which the yellow mongoose then expand considerably.
The disused railway line makes the bog and surrounding areas easily accessible from both ends.
The flash, or lake, is the result of mining subsidence in 1924 and a disused railway still runs through the woodland.
When the ciboria over the altar fell into disuse a curtain was suspended at the back of the altar. called a dossel, or dorsal, and two others, one at each side of it. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
He began to read a piece about the proposed transformation of a disused mill into a luxury hotel.
The cotton factory that once employed hundreds of workers closed years ago and lies abandoned with disused machinery rusting outside.
He had an arts scholarship and painted huge oil canvases in a disused squash court. Times, Sunday Times
The nuclear waste is encased in concrete before being sent for storage in disused mines.
The remnant of a long-disused church building, it was built out of solid stone with massive buttresses supporting long, high walls.
This awkward anachronism came about when a couple of hundred prefabricated bungalows, built to house workers on an irrigation project in the 1960s, fell into disuse.
Now the intercourse with heaven, by angels, with which the patriarchs had been dignified, but which had been long disused, begins to be revived; for, when the First-begotten is to be brought into the world, the angels are ordered to attend his motions. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
The police arranged to rendezvous with their informant at a disused warehouse.
The workforce has shrunk to less than a thousand and much of the plant is in disuse.
We were in the dish of a disused radio telescope. Times, Sunday Times
Travellers who were running a paving company from a disused pub car park turned it into an unsightly rubbish dump.
Another such symbol of triumph is the Richards Town Park, which was in a state of disuse and used as a den by drug addicts about eight years ago.
For a moment he'd been near to panic as he realized that the pumps were rusty, the filling station obviously disused.
Since the economic downturn there has been an increase in the use of disused warehouses for production. The Sun
His muscles felt cramped and disused, and his chest and rib-cage ached as if he'd been the loser in a fist fight.

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