mothball

“It literally goes into mothball mode,” said Len Kientz, Evonik’s director of energy management in North America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Manolo Blahnik did a shoehorn, Isaac Mizrahi designed a mothball that’s a cube, so it didn’t roll, and I ran it at 30 pages with the title “Hey, Target: How About This?”

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023

Liberty Steel has put 440 jobs at risk under plans to mothball three factories and cut production at another.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2023

Also, the shipyard is home to a mothball fleet — many ships on the way to scrapping — which fluctuates in size.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

For example, many combat ships are being returned to active duty from the "mothball fleet" and many others can be put into service on very short notice.

From State of the Union Address by Harry S. Truman

He suggested that Johnson use some well-known methods to get the bear to leave: mothballs, ammonia-soaked towels, bear spray.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

I may still need to get my megaphone out of mothballs after all.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

Growing up, restaurateur Andy Kalish associated two smells with Friday nights: his grandmother's chicken soup and mothballs in his grandfather's closet.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2022

He wasn’t interested in anything that reeked of mothballs and dust.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2021

“It reeks of mothballs and camphor and...squirrel. I like to have suffocated.”

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Other flagship policies including the redevelopment of Casement Park and the A5 road project also remain mothballed due to financial and legal disputes.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

When the Toreros needed cold-weather clothing for a game at Dayton, Harbaugh cajoled the Chargers, where he spent part of his playing career, into donating some of their mothballed gear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Plans were approved, then mothballed, and then resurrected.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Since then, Microsoft, Google and Meta have signed their own deals with mothballed nuclear-power plants or those slated to be shut down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

A boy’s cap hangs on the wall; at the back looms a massive wardrobe, mothballed shirts hung inside.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

“What we are seeing today is different. Growers pulling out vines, mothballing vineyards and planting other crops points to something more structural than the cycles I have experienced,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Goldman Sachs raised its second-quarter Brent crude forecast by $10 to $76 a barrel, as Iraq began mothballing some oil production.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

Whatever the case, “Adult/Child’s” mothballing led to another withdrawal by Wilson, who had far less to do with the band’s next few records and who eventually turned to a solo career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

It was "in this context" Asos announced it was mothballing its warehouse in Lichfield - meaning it won't immediately be sold, but will not be used.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2023

But that era ended when Alcoa terminated the Intalco agreement before mothballing the facility in 2020.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022