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    disused


    1. We became a single entity in those days and nights at the disused office, pooling our strength and our wits in this endless game of survival


    2. disused theatre a couple of streets away


    3. “There’s a disused building on the trail, which was at one time the


    4. is littered with disused portals


    5. Should the custom of weighing gold, however, come to be disused, as it is very likely to be on account of its inconveniency ; should the gold coin of England come to be received by tale, as it was before the late recoinage this great company may, perhaps, find that they have, upon this, as upon some other occasions, mistaken their own interest not a little


    6. When he found her, she was propped up on pillows in an old iron bed in the middle of what looked like a disused ward


    7. The lighting was dim and the whole effect was of a disused barn or old warehouse


    8. General Rubin entrenched his forces in a disused Bacardi distillery, with rough trenches built at an angle obtuse to the approaches


    9. Along the now disused trail between Daiquiri and Siboney, overcoats and blankets were rotting by the wayside, and some of the “boys” told the ragged pacificos of this discarded treasure which was useless to the army


    10. With Nicholls and MacDowell, I had lain behind the disused sugar-kettles at Marianje, against which bullets rang incessantly

    11. A tired and hungry group gathered in a disused drying yard; Crane, Harding, Davis, Burr, Mcintosh, Hare, Glackens, and myself


    12. It was the kind of thing you would expect to find in Coober Pedy, where opal miners made homes from disused mining tunnels to escape the heat


    13. The small storage room gave away few clues about his whereabouts; it could be underground, or in some old, disused building


    14. Her studio, a disused warehouse beside the motorway, was unlined, draughty, noisy and cold


    15. „There"s a dead body in the disused sport"s club down by the beach, and the murderer is in the main hospital with a bullet in his shoulder


    16. They drove further along the track to conceal the cars in case someone had seen them in the disused quarry the day before


    17. Zooming in on the map as the dot stopped, the tag showed that it was at a disused factory


    18. ” He jumped out of the car and unlocked a rusty iron gate that blocked their way, its disused hinges screeching in protest


    19. “And, finally, following an anonymous tip-off to police, the body of an unidentified male has been discovered in a shallow grave on a disused carrot farm


    20. The contaminated water having been blocked from flowing into the treatment plant had nowhere else to go but down the disused pipe and on into the sea

    21. "A disused logging road a few kilometres west," said Schacter


    22. "It's a disused World War Two restaging base midway between the States and Alaska


    23. A disused mining camp, still evident from years before, showed clearly


    24. Canadian Government topographs marked it as disused in 1917


    25. "The mining operation is probably disused," said the captain stubbornly


    26. The planets and moons are easy to plot but at least a million other bits of rock, comets and disused space vehicles litter the system


    27. He saw himself walking along a disused


    28. disused shelter in a field in Heighington near Lincoln


    29. A disused horse shelter


    30. I would like you first to empty your vehicles, I assume they are not family heirlooms because we will be disposing of them later today, Mr Crow’s is going to a watery grave in a local disused quarry, I have it on good authority it’s at least ten metres deep, next Mr Jays vehicle will pay a visit to a hydraulic press in a wrecker’s yard at Caboolture

    31. Then the school was moved to Iringa and the disused quarry at Kongwa remained but a dream


    32. He ordered them to grab the girl and bring her to him at a disused warehouse, where he planned to kill Max and Carla after the handover


    33. He lived in a disused child’s room, under


    34. It rose above a disused barn


    35. Almost every telegraph pole, or disused factory or house chimney had a giant pile of untidy sticks forming a circle, some 6 ft deep and up to 5 ft wide - easily big enough for vertically challenged midgets like ourselves to bed down in (and we had thought about it)


    36. She hustled him out the cupboard, and into the disused kitchens in a long empty wing of the


    37. In all the other cases, the terrorists had been busy during their years of apparent inactivity, secretly tunnelling alternative entry points to all their major dumps, normally disused bunkers or nuclear shelters in the Republic


    38. Atholl found a disused lectern


    39. Over the wall there was a disused cemetery, bounded on its south side by an old mews used now for light industry and garaging


    40. The haze in her mind began to clear and she stood carefully, stretching her disused muscles

    41. Carefully he slipped out through the back of the building and over a low concrete wall into the bushes at the side of a cracked and disused bitumen road that led to an old structure that while now derelict still possessed some of the façade that had once ranked it one of the mansions of the colony


    42. Instead of going back into the garage that would take him to Happy View Terrace he moved off to his left, down the disused bitumen road


    43. Today, this disused mine is the biggest tourist attraction in the state, but having missed all the action by several decades I had no great interest in going to see it


    44. A few quiet words were exchanged then they picked up Bezart’s body, carried it outside and calmly slid it over the low wall of an old, disused well


    45. way at a disused airfield in the north of the country


    46. The four main items I needed in large quantities were coke, pig iron, ferrous silicon and top quality cast iron scrap which came in the form of disused engine blocks


    47. many rusty, disused railway wagons they were shunted off the main


    48. At one point when I was exploring on my own, I looked into the kitchen of the old disused


    49. The first was the best room, and in it were Lucie's birds, and flowers, and books, and desk, and work-table, and box of water-colours; the second was the Doctor's consulting-room, used also as the dining-room; the third, changingly speckled by the rustle of the plane-tree in the yard, was the Doctor's bedroom, and there, in a corner, stood the disused shoemaker's bench and tray of tools, much as it had stood on the fifth floor of the dismal house by the wine-shop, in the suburb of Saint Antoine in Paris


    50. Through the disused graveyard in the parish of St

















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    Synonyms for "disused"

    disused obsolete neglected unused past old-fashioned

    "disused" definitions

    no longer in use