DISUSE in a Sentence

Learn DISUSE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

10 example sentences for DISUSE, such as:

1. Madame la Colonelle was not entirely disused.
2. The house seemed as dreary as a disused street.
3. The church was recently restored after decades of disuse.
4. The workforce has shrunk to less than a thousand and much of the plant is in disuse.
5. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISUSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
disuse
 n.  the state of something that has been unused and neglected
Classic Sentence:
1  A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Similarly, he dealt us clean plates and knives and forks, for each course, and dropped those just disused into two baskets on the ground by his chair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
3  Not a blind was raised; no sign of life was in the dull paved court, with its covered way leading to the disused door.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD
4  The house seemed as dreary as a disused street.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  Moreover, fifty yards off stood a hut, built of clods and covered with thin turves, but now entirely disused.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
6  He lived in an old sombre house and from his windows he could look into the disused distillery or upwards along the shallow river on which Dublin is built.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
7  Madame la Colonelle was not entirely disused.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
Example Sentence:
1  The church was recently restored after decades of disuse.
2  The workforce has shrunk to less than a thousand and much of the plant is in disuse.
3  The transformation from disused docks into city-centre cultural venue took three years.