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Six example sentences with disuse, each labelled with its topic.
Decades of disuse left the mill roofless, with birches growing through the floor where looms once stood.
Architecture
The chapel organ fell into disuse after the war, and its pipes were silent for sixty years.
Music
Old words drift into disuse quietly; readers meet them only in footnotes explaining what farmers once called the tool.
Literature
The old file format fell into disuse once the new one shipped, and few programs can still open it.
Technology
Some statutes linger in disuse for a century, unenforced yet never formally repealed by the legislature.
Law
The mountain railway sat in disuse for thirty years before volunteers relaid the track for summer tourists.
Travel
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