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

The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was mothball.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 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

Briant has had to mothball the giant inflatable walk-through colon she used to send to events in tribal areas and gatherings of agricultural workers throughout Washington State.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 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

After Warner was elected, she got sweet revenge when she took her purple Halston pantsuit out of mothballs and wore it proudly to a luncheon thrown for her by the Republican ladies.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2022

And it’s very possible that the fullback position, currently headed to the mothballs, will eventually make a comeback.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 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

Rowlf the philosophical piano-playing dog, a regular on “The Jimmy Dean Show” in the 1960s, is brought out of mothballs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2021

The Commander, instead, smells of mothballs, or is this odor some punitive form of aftershave?

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

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

Vivergo Fuels, which was owned by Associated British Foods and produced bioethanol, closed and Ensus's plant was mothballed.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 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

Ackman set his sights lower this time compared with 2024, when he initially aimed to raise $25 billion, then lowered the target to around $2 billion before mothballing the listing entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 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

The MPs pointed to "widely reported" recruitment issues, with more people leaving the armed forces than being recruited, and the mothballing of Royal Navy vessels due to crew shortages.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024

“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