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
Since its closure along with the rail works in 1986, it fell into disuse and disrepair.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
Fewer cities are volunteering to spend billions on infrastructure that sometimes falls into disuse.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
The body’s sensors that on Earth raise our blood pressure when we stand up from lying down, so that we don’t faint, grow lazy with disuse.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
"Lady Stark," he said, in a voice hoarse with disuse.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
Hundreds of British soldiers took part in what the army called "one of the most ambitious military exercises in a generation" in the disused platforms of Charing Cross Underground station.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
The British Army covertly took over a disused part of the London Underground in central London to plan a Nato military response to possible future Russian attacks.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
One caused a fire at a disused oil storage site in eastern Latvia.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Once they’d snuck into a rave in a disused warehouse down in the Flats and danced until three, glow necklaces ringing their wrists and their throats.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
From an internal desire on the part of the creature disusing it, to be quit of an organ which it finds troublesome.
From Life and Habit by Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)
Of the asylums entirely disusing restraint, in some of them, as we have stated, the patients have been found tranquil and comfortable, and in others they have been unusually excited and disturbed.
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack
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 Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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 Hume, David
What a hushing of voices and cleansing of wits and disusing of oaths was there after my little lady came to our rough Habitation!
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
