mothball

Meanwhile, the metal’s prices could be supported by supply concerns after miner South32 disclosed plans to mothball its smelter in Mozambique, according to the analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

David Chapman, executive director of UK Hospitality Cymru, said having to mothball rooms wasn't uncommon.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024

At Pascagoula Hospital, the city’s only acute-care health facility, a wave of departures has left 80 unfilled openings for registered nurses, forcing administrators to mothball a third of its beds.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2022

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

A new sofa with firm cushions and pristine fabric outshines an old, dusty, worn-in couch that smells like mothballs.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2022

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

“But honestly, once we were given the green light to come back, we came out of mothballs very quickly ... and then we just drove it to the finish line.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021

Then she and Blanca set about the task of covering all the furniture in sheets and blanketing the house with mothballs.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

As the Metropolitan Police investigation is due to be mothballed next year, cold case detectives say they are troubled by the continuing mystery.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

The approved buyer of the mothballed residential, hotel and retail project is a partnership led by Kali P. Chaudhuri, whose KPC Development Co. owns and builds commercial properties in California and India.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

A few gas flares could be seen flickering from the road, but the country’s energy facilities had essentially been mothballed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

The war could make it easier for Takaichi to reopen mothballed nuclear plants that were supplying 30% of the country’s electricity before the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

From Barron's ● May 14, 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

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

Critics say this mothballing will amount to a death warrant, and have asked San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors to give the fountain another chance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

And it would vindicate the Dodgers’ strategy of all but mothballing an elite starting pitcher for almost three weeks and then handing him the ball and asking him to win them the division series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

As costs mounted due to the unexpected complications, inflation and the pandemic, the council considered halting work and mothballing the building.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023

“In some cases, it may be necessary to re-examine the timeframe and the process of decommissioning or mothballing of coal-fired power stations temporarily to address our electricity supply shortfall,” Ramaphosa wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023