disuse

Example Sentences

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Since its closure along with the rail works in 1986, it fell into disuse and disrepair.

From BBC • Aug. 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

Congress did remove that disability from most Confederates in 1872, and the provision fell into disuse.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2023

So much so that her Peloton bike—like so many other Peloton bikes across America—has fallen into disuse.

From Slate • Sep. 2, 2023

The doorway to the stairs was on the second floor at the end of a long hallway in the vacant western wing, the door itself narrower than the rest and the knob rusted from disuse.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland