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
It fell into disuse after Congress granted an amnesty to most ex-rebels in 1872.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
Last year Regal Cinemas’ parent company filed for bankruptcy and this year announced 40 locations would close because of disuse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
The room was rank with fungus and disuse.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
On an adjacent island facing Setouchi are small disused bases that launched shinyo suicide motorboat attacks on Allied forces in World War II.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Along the disused line from Woljeong-ri towards Baengmagoji station to the south -- the section to be restored under the peace project -- vegetation crowds both sides of the tracks, nearly swallowing a stone wall.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
That included disused Ministry of Defence properties because they had on-site facilities and were "more contained," she added.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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
After a long walk and several Y-shaped tunnel splits, the pigeon led us to a disused section of track where the ties had warped and rotted and pools of stagnant water spanned the floor.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
The practice still continued in England of disusing tillage and throwing the land into enclosures, for the sake of pasture.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume
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
But how this can be avoided entirely, I know not, but by disusing their goods and letting them perish in their hands.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
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
