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
“You look like a good boy,” the man said softly, his Yiddish coming out off-kilter and scratchy, as though it had fallen into disuse.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Hill, who was on BP19 with 30 Commando, expressed concern over the dust in a disused building at Skrunda-1 they were being asked to sleep in.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
AFP on Saturday saw migrant minors milling around in a disused industrial park in Ceuta, while others dozed on the pavements outside.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
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
One caused a fire at a disused oil storage site in eastern Latvia.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Late in the afternoon, I stepped from the trees onto what appeared to be a disused logging road.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
Oh the general shamefulness of disusing the feet God had given me.
From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells
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
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 Octavius Brooks Frothingham
What a hushing of voices and cleansing of wits and disusing of oaths was there after my little lady came to our rough Habitation!
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
