DISUSE in a Sentence
Learn DISUSE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
10 example sentences for DISUSE, such as:
1. Madame la Colonelle was not entirely disused.
2. The house seemed as dreary as a disused street.
3. The church was recently restored after decades of disuse.
4. The workforce has shrunk to less than a thousand and much of the plant is in disuse.
5. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.
2. The house seemed as dreary as a disused street.
3. The church was recently restored after decades of disuse.
4. The workforce has shrunk to less than a thousand and much of the plant is in disuse.
5. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.
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Meanings and Examples of DISUSE
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disuse
n. the state of something that has been unused and neglected
Classic Sentence:
1 A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.
2 Similarly, he dealt us clean plates and knives and forks, for each course, and dropped those just disused into two baskets on the ground by his chair.
3 Not a blind was raised; no sign of life was in the dull paved court, with its covered way leading to the disused door.
4 The house seemed as dreary as a disused street.
5 Moreover, fifty yards off stood a hut, built of clods and covered with thin turves, but now entirely disused.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
6 He lived in an old sombre house and from his windows he could look into the disused distillery or upwards along the shallow river on which Dublin is built.
7 Madame la Colonelle was not entirely disused.
Example Sentence:
1 The church was recently restored after decades of disuse.
2 The workforce has shrunk to less than a thousand and much of the plant is in disuse.
3 The transformation from disused docks into city-centre cultural venue took three years.