How to Use unused in a Sentence

unused

adjective
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  • I have four days of unused vacation time left.
  • The library has been unused for 10 years.
  • The movie, quite bad, leaves no sports movie cliché unused.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The name had been lying around unused for 20 years at that point.
    — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The soccer ball will light up when kicked or bounced, and the lights will turn off when unused.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 21 Nov. 2023
  • And a large portion of the money that is set aside for child care goes unused.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • What happens to the money when a gift card goes unused?
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • And there may be as much as 1 billion square feet of unused U.S. office space by the end of the decade, the report shows.
    — Bysydney Lake, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The barn has been largely unused for the last several years.
    — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Hatred leads all the unused clones of Hank and Dean into battle to aid Brock.
    — Mat Olson, Vulture, 19 July 2023
  • Following the fires, unused rental cars piled up on the airport lawn.
    — Jack Kiyonaga, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2023
  • This unused grass covers an area roughly 12 times the size of Griffith Park.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This way, unused items don't pile up and take up valuable storage space.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 1 Feb. 2023
  • One place where unused files can build up is in your Downloads folder.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • By default, the bar included links for Gmail, Chat, Spaces, and Meet... and a whole lot of unused white space.
    — Samuel Axon and Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The days of unused spot-up shooters may not yet be over; but the days of spacial revolution lie ahead, and Hardy and the Jazz could lead the way.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The team found a fire water main that had frozen and burst in an unused portion of the building’s ground floor, flooding the ground floor and basement.
    — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2024
  • At the end of the war, unused and unexploded bombs and chemical weapons had to be disposed of.
    — Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Burner tubes are inviting spots for spiders to lay eggs if your grill goes unused for a while.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
  • But even if not now, unused ammo could be resold someday.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That way your controller can stay warm in your hands while playing games rather than being wrapped in polyester and left unused.
    — PCMAG, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Odds are, your unused gift cards are still usable, Rossman said.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 25 July 2023
  • If the $600-million plan works out, the long-unused aquifer could contribute about a fifth of the water Angelenos use each year.
    — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The show will be in the new I-X showplace on the east side of the complex, in an area mostly unused for expositions before.
    — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Some of the discarded cards Gündoğdu finds are new and unused.
    — Tracy J. Wholf, ABC News, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The company said nearly half of US adults have at least one unused discount code or gift card.
    — Emilia David, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Bates has left this floor mostly unused, but there is lots of space for the future owner to repurpose.
    — Cathy Ching, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • In January of 2004, his body was found inside of an unused grain silo.
    — Nicolás Viñuela, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Sometimes, bat boxes will go up and go unused, but Boritt said the simple fact of acting to protect wildlife is great.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Hundreds of unused rental cars are parked in fields near the island’s main airport in Kahului, where planes arrive half full.
    — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023

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