mothball
Example Sentences
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Three of New Zealand’s eight navy ships—two offshore patrol vessels and one inshore patrol vessel—were mothballed.
Fountainhall Primary was mothballed - shut on a temporary basis - in 2025 but now the local authority is looking to begin the process to close its doors permanently.
From BBC
Taiwan is already “looking at restarting mothballed coal plants,” Knutson says.
From Barron's
The place smelled real bad, a warmed-over stink of mothballs and something like sheep dip.
From Literature
Yet he expects “limited impact” in the near term from companies bringing mothballed sites back online.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
