decommission
Example Sentences
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The complaint points to the utility’s failure to de-energize its transmission lines that night, as well as its decision to leave up a decommissioned line that hadn’t carried electricity for decades.
From Los Angeles Times
Three decommissioned lighters - old barges that were used to transport coal and other industrial materials - have been sunk in the Blackwater Estuary, between Maldon and West Mersea in Essex.
From BBC
Nuclear sites need significant regulation, set out in law, both while power plants are operating and during decommissioning, which takes years.
From BBC
Tuna used pieces of glass from what he estimates are about 15 different salvaged stained glass windows from decommissioned churches.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s unusual for a man to be surprised that modern battleships are more advanced than ones decommissioned decades ago, but more interesting was his engagement in what he was saying.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
