disuse
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After a brief resurgence during the Civil War, when it was used as a military route, the road fell into disuse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Royal enthusiast Anne Daley, from Cardiff, hopes the cottage will continue to be used by younger members of the family rather than risk falling into disuse.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
This is why the Spanish, who arrived in the 1500s and set out to control the people by converting them to Catholicism, banned the cultivation and possession of the crop, which fell into disuse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Congress did remove that disability from most Confederates in 1872, and the provision fell into disuse.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
“I’m not allowed,” she says, voice rough with disuse.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
On an adjacent island facing Setouchi are small disused bases that launched shinyo suicide motorboat attacks on Allied forces in World War II.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
They also came after Israel bombed the disused Abu Duhur airbase in the country's northwest earlier in the week, claiming it wanted to avert Turkish troops deploying to the facility.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
In dirty t-shirts and flimsy sandals, hundreds of unaccompanied minors slept outdoors in a disused industrial park in Ceuta after swimming to the Spanish territory from Morocco, AFP saw Saturday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Ries, the bankruptcy trustee, said offices in Texas were disused and decrepit—his foot went through the floor when he visited one location around two months after McClain’s death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
An immense chimney, relic of a disused mill, reared up, shadowy and ominous.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
But no mere sentimental or capricious dislike to the pig, on the part of any number of persons, could now procure an enactment for disusing that animal.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
Of the asylums entirely disusing restraint, in some of them, as we have stated, the patients have been found tranquil and comfortable, and in others they have been unusually excited and disturbed.
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke
Oh the general shamefulness of disusing the feet God had given me.
From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells
The practice still continued in England of disusing tillage and throwing the land into enclosures, for the sake of pasture.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume
From an internal desire on the part of the creature disusing it, to be quit of an organ which it finds troublesome.
From Life and Habit by R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild
