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
The church fell into disuse in the 1950s and was converted into a house in the early 2000s.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024
Its back room, once a gathering place for the miners and their families who populated the town a generation ago, has been locked up for many years, fallen to disuse.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
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
Its voice was low, and slow, and rough with disuse.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Major Joe Harris was tasked with getting a full military command post into a disused Tube station without anyone noticing.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
Around 40 disused shipping containers are being repurposed into two-bedroom homes, with a kitchen and a bathroom.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
One caused a fire at a disused oil storage site in eastern Latvia.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
They walked up the street until they got to the bend of Carpenter’s Road where the boys lounged on a disused well.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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 Bain, Alexander
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 Tuke, Daniel Hack
And finally, it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite altogether, and gave good reasons for disusing it.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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 Hume, David
Oh the general shamefulness of disusing the feet God had given me.
From The Quality of Mercy by Howells, William Dean
