How to Use unused in a Sentence

unused

adjective
  • I have four days of unused vacation time left.
  • The library has been unused for 10 years.
  • To help with the mortgage, the Google duo paid them $1,700 a month to rent unused space.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The movie, quite bad, leaves no sports movie cliché unused.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • And that is a kind of under-the-radar tax on the unused car market.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Any green cards that go unused by the end of a fiscal year go to waste.
    — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Cass jerked open the lever again and an unused shell arcked out and fell in the leaves beside the bleeding hound.
    — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The builders have reached an agreement with the transit agency to lease unused land for a park.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 8 June 2021
  • The barn has been largely unused for the last several years.
    — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Turn off the Manage app if unused toggle switch, and it will be left alone.
    — David Nield, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The gym, which had sat quiet and mostly unused for the past decade, caught fire Wednesday night.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Broad Creek at botton, the horse stable (unused) is at top-left.
    — Jason Fontelieu, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2022
  • Their heirs may still own land around the village where crops once grew, or sheep grazed, but much of that land now sits unused.
    — Dan Charles, NPR, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The Bears used to provide numbers for tickets sold and unused tickets, but that is no longer the case.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The stiff green tails of scallions peeked out between two cans of unused coconut milk.
    — Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2021
  • In the case of something like a huge warehouse with a ton of roof space but small power needs, much, if not most of the roof could go unused.
    — Jan Ellen Spiegel, courant.com, 14 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Our tester loved this pillow, but her only qualm was having to store the unused fill.
    — Ashley Zlatopolsky, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Frequently, the parts of foods that go unused or are thrown away are the most nutritious.
    — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • One place where unused files can build up is in your Downloads folder.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In some cases unused funds can fund a Roth IRA for the beneficiary.
    — Brian Boswell, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • In the Europa League, the 28-year-old was an unused substitute in the first leg against AZ and his involvement was limited to around 15 minutes in the second leg.
    — Jay Harris, The Athletic, 18 Mar. 2025

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