mothball
Example Sentences
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“I thought maybe we could take them out of mothballs.”
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.
More than a decade after Fukushima, only 14 reactors are up and running and 19 are still mothballed.
“Thinking it’s going to be mothballed is not an option.”
There was so much fiber that much of it ended up mothballed for a decade before internet traffic expanded enough to justify using it.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
