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Sentence Examples A flasher has indecently exposed himself to two teenage girls in Broadway as they cycled near a disused railway bridge. Eventually, he reached a beach and dragged himself through sand dunes until he reached a disused campsite. Railway sidings have all but disappeared and the few that remain are rusted, weedgrown and disused. Highworth Town Council is backing calls for a cycle route along the disused railway line. A month back the route from Newport to Sandown was opened along a disused railway and as such it has no hills. It dens down in rocky cairns, under tree roots, sometimes even in the disused eyries of a golden eagle. Other options also been looked at by the council is the reactivation of the disused rail line from Togher to Portlaoise town centre. The project is to build three huge domes in disused brickfields near Stewartby. So literally, four Dutchmen turned up, and beds were hastily set up in a disused Nissen hut on the site. Unbeknownst to them, the dam was constructed over five disused mine shafts, which led into the underground workings of an old mine. Giant disused workshops and factory buildings would be flattened to make way for new homes and business properties. Flames visible for miles tore through the roof of a disused school in Windhill, Shipley, last night, leaving the building a wreck. Threats of the same treatment prevented refractory congregations from using disused churches they had hired for private worship. The Catacombs Project plans to refurbish the disused buildings under the church, which is a protected structure. Astor and five others had hired disused factory buildings for a night and laid on all-night musical events. The path zigzagged through the now disused Caw Quarry, first past a stone hut and then past the opening of an old level. Thus, as the Normans became English-speaking they apparently found it easier to adopt Norman-French substitutes for disused Anglo-Saxon words. I actually found a disused military shelter left over from WWII near my house the other day. Much of the wood and obviously reusable material which would usually be dumped into landfill has been reclaimed from disused sites. The flash, or lake, is the result of mining subsidence in 1924 and a disused railway still runs through the woodland. Show More Sentences The cotton factory that once employed hundreds of workers closed years ago and lies abandoned with disused machinery rusting outside. A gutsy group of Ukrainians has made the world's first underground balloon ascent in a disused coal mine in Doneck. Donaldson is accused of luring his wife into the disused house on the caravan site at Crianlarich, where he had stored a box of large fireworks. The path follows the line of a lynchet to another footbridge, also spanning the disused railway. A disused church hall next to Carshalton Library was gutted by fire in a suspected arson attack around 3.40 pm on Sunday. A disused paddling pool in Sough Park, Earby, could be turned into a giant sandpit for children. The developers envisage this site being developed for mixed use, while new buildings to be constructed on disused backland. Firefighters battled a blaze at the disused Robert Fletcher paper mill in Stoneclough last night. Most of the timbers from the ship have now been lifted and are currently being conserved in wet tanks at a disused steelworks nearby. Further round you cross the meridian line, etched in stone, beside a disused pavilion still home to the model remains of a multimedia exhibition. He hired a crew of workers who used JCBs, a tipper truck, lorries and floodlighting to remove track from the disused line. Typically they will devote their third year efforts to capturing the charms of disused water towers or rubbish-strewn beaches in midwinter. Excavation work at the beginning of the project led to disused cellars, old water and gas pipes and old tramlines being unearthed. After the suspicious death of a miner at a disused colliery in Wales, the Doctor investigates the owner, Global Chemicals. The woman walked past the sailing club and onto the disused railway line, where she saw a man on a bicycle in front of her. Derelict and disused buildings are favourite targets, as are billboards, road signs and bus stops. At present one area is mostly wooded with some open space and a disused pond, the other has an old orchard in it. The disused railway line makes the bog and surrounding areas easily accessible from both ends. There are now plans to use the disused ringing chamber as a small museum of church archives. Hidden away between a popular pub and a disused former bank it is an inauspicious, unimpressive building in the shadows of Aberdeen city centre. Show More Sentences The family on the farm had no idea the hen had gone back to nature and had been laying her eggs in a disused trough in the loft. Travellers who were running a paving company from a disused pub car park turned it into an unsightly rubbish dump. The castle was then a disused, grade II listed building that had unsympathetically been turned into four holiday flats. It may be disused fitness equipment, untouched kitchen gadgets or scores of unwanted CDs and books. Plans are to be unveiled later this month for the Emmaus Community in disused farm buildings at Barlby near Selby. The old and disused graveyards present a problem more so, as weeds and brushwood have over the decades taken over. Walkers will then turn right up the old disused famine road, across the spectacular and beautiful Lagan Hill. The arches of active and disused railway viaducts are filled with restaurants, car repair workshops, markets, and businesses of other kinds. You need nerves of steel and a large dose of blind faith to pull off a party in a disused, underground tube station. Weak, disused musculature means I have to saunter and stroll rather than step out briskly. The disused school building could be a centre for the community to meet and for visitors to gather. Our son found his way into a disused cesspit and then, going barefoot, picked up an infection, which required regular injections in his backside. Residents and community groups are being asked to put forward suggestions for the future use of a disused Bradford church. Grown on a disused china clay pit, the project has helped regenerate the area. A disused coal mine shaft was used for decades to dump hundreds of tons of industrial waste. It's a mixture of habitable buildings, several disused farms, cowsheds and what was probably once a pigsty. The scenery couldn't match what had come earlier and, as the trail began to intertwine with a disused railway line, so the signs disappeared. We shot the second episode in an old disused ironworks at night, which was just horrible. Three disused sites in the city centre, on Leeds Road and Halifax Road, were invaded by itinerants during March. The works consist of building a new corridor linking the main building to the disused Telephone Exchange in the rear yard. Show More Sentences After a quiet stretch, the road passes a disused quarry on the right and then reaches a farm and some cottages. His muscles felt cramped and disused, and his chest and rib-cage ached as if he'd been the loser in a fist fight. But they are hoping the answer to their prayers lies in a disused warehouse on Westlea Industrial Estate. Both authors raise the issue of restoring the long disused order of deaconesses. Graves in a disused Highworth burial ground could be moved to make way for a sheltered housing project. Together with his co-founders, they received a grant to convert a disused swimming pool into a theatre. A teenager died when he fell through the roof of a disused warehouse while playing with his friends. The road will be on the London Road part of the A414 where there are currently two disused access roads. Police said the bomber's target was a truck carrying recruits into the base in a disused airport. Open for just over a year it occupies a disused warehouse in one of London's poorest boroughs, Hackney. We wanted a studio or an old warehouse but when we found a disused hospital it was great. Over 300 houses have also been built there and the airfield is not disused. Carp is set to take over a disused part of the garden of Marden House and incorporate it into Castlefields Park. A little dumping was noted, apparently a bag of some sort of disused building material. A group of homeless people broke into a disused Richmond church so that they could sleep there for the night. We want to make sure that disused railways are protected from development which would make it harder to bring them back into use. The exhibition is housed in a disused and temporarily abandoned sorting office in the centre of London. It is littered with fragments of abandoned machinery and the rusted hulks of disused ships. A Cadishead builder may have to knock down seven luxury homes because they were built over a disused footpath. It could have remained that way, disused and neglected, gathering dust and cobwebs. Show More Sentences The band's first gig was in a friend's bedroom and their next was in a disused warehouse in Glasgow. Kingston University and Spirit Bond Student Housing have called for a public inquiry into the plans to build on the disused sewage works located at Lower Marsh Lane, Surbiton. The Wensleydale Railway company will restore the disused Leeming Bar station as a transport interchange if Hambleton Council approves the scheme this week. There is a disused bay platform at Hellifield if the most that could be afforded was connections there, and if traffic justified, through trains could be run. Gone are the disused mineshafts, spoil heaps and rusting machinery and in their place are smart new offices and homes, shops and leisure facilities. Over the years many local residents have been using the disused track for walks, exercising their horses and dogs, jogging or just to admire the natural beauty of the area. Boggy bits slowed us for the first half mile, then we hit the pastures down by the river, connected with the embankment of the disused railway line and picked up speed. I took the lift, which oddly went only as far as the twelfth floor, then the stairs, which for the brief stretch between floors were dank and dark, uncarpeted and disused. Since many of the traditional black-glazed roof tiles broke in the quake, contractors had to scour other disused Japanese buildings for replacements. To maintain the differential, extra bands would need to be added at the top end of the scale, whilst lopping off those disused bands at the bottom, which is ludicrous. Council housing lists were long and slow-moving, and some desperate families squatted in disused Army huts in the hope of qualifying for a council house sooner. The prefabricated materials would then be transhipped to the United Kingdom, where they would be sent to assembly facilities in disused Lancashire cotton factories. A disused emu farm is fast building up a reputation as a place where Aboriginal people can get the skills and certificates they need to have a real future in landcare. Yellow Mongoose dens are usually disused burrows left by other animals such as antbears or spring hares which the yellow mongoose then expand considerably. The water and blackdamp came from disused workings adjoining the mine. In a disused plot of land in Midtown Manhattan, a conceptual artist turns pump-jacks into things of beauty. Mrs God would have been furious if she had found out that, after lunch, he was in the shed at the bottom of the garden tinkering with bits of disused jet aircraft. In the east of the island there are two ruined cottages, a disused graveyard and the site of a cross and oratory plus several drystone walled fields once used for tillage. After treatment there for gunshot wounds, he was whisked by the CIA to Thailand where he was housed in a small, disused warehouse on an active airbase. That seemed a bit lacking in heft, so I bulked it out with a random handful of paper from a disused notebook, put our names on it, stapled the pile up, and turned it in. Show More Sentences The court heard the defendants met up with the man at Christmas 2000, at a disused timber yard in Nottinghamshire, where the illegal diesel was then being made. The July wind-up coincides with the launch by Eircell of the country's first controlled pilot project on the recycling of disused mobile phones, batteries and chargers. Parts of the lavish costume drama are being filmed at a disused textile mill which has been converted into a Victorian boarding school for the film. Ambitious plans to transform a disused piece of land in York into a fully-equipped community sports and recreation facility have moved a step closer to reality. A group of local residents and business owners are calling on the council to urgently reopen a disused mill lade and culvert to its full capacity. Beneath the site there were some disused mine shafts leading to old coal workings which, unknown to the defendants, were connected to the plaintiff's mine. During their two-hour ordeal the boys were locked in a disused safe. Initially he focused on small scale residential conversions but Kennedy's big breakthrough came with the purchase of a disused Baptist church in Edinburgh's Dublin Street. Two guys wake up chained by their legs in a disused washroom. Apart from the crowds which gathered outside the magistrates court to catch a glimpse of the self-confessed killer, thousands more went to the disused and flooded quarry. It uses an Underground tunnel which had been disused for many years. The town is a favorite nesting-place for the leggy birds, who take up residence here on the old Roman aqueduct, disused minarets and any other safe perch, in the Summers. Team Spirit and Black Clover are sponsoring the transformation of a disused field near the driving range at the resort in Sutton Coldfield. On the disused side of Platform 2, an old carriage is bolted to the ground. All around in shadow lurked the shapes of trunks, wooden boxes, furniture, disused and broken. In Scotland the custom, now disused in England, of inviting the relations of the deceased to the interment is universally retained. In 1789 Robert Ransome, an iron founder in Ipswich started casting ploughshares in a disused malting at St Margaret's Ditches. The Hulme Locks Branch Canal in Manchester is now disused, and on 26 May 1995 was replaced by the nearby Pomona Lock. Another disused rail line between Buxton and Ashbourne now forms the Tissington Trail. The line opened on 30 May 1999, mostly using the former disused Birmingham Snow Hill to Wolverhampton Low Level Line. Show More Sentences In 1987 the gardens were extended to include the Great Dell, a disused quarry with a collection of conifers. The hall is currently disused while proposals are considered for its future. Part of the disused railway track in Dumfries was later converted to a cycle path. This facility had its own quay, which, although now disused, is still visible from Irvine Harbour. The band recorded the album in a disused building in Glasgow that had been a town hall in the past. In addition to these premises, BBC Scotland operates a drama productions studio at Dumbarton on the site of a disused whisky distillery. Part of the film Willow was shot in the disused Dinorwic Quarry, in June 1987 on some of the lower terraces next to the Pumped storage scheme. It now only has two through platforms, the former bay platforms long disused. The Inca tern nests in crevices, caves and disused burrows, such as that of a Humboldt penguin. This has left the disused and decaying tramway pier between the railway and promenade piers. In 1884, the tunnel's disused construction shaft to the north of the river was repurposed to serve as Wapping station. Within the vale are a number of farms and small settlements, in addition to several disused quarry and mining works. Beside the reservoir sits a disused quarry and a cottage formerly used for maintenance of the river. This lane begins opposite Threlkeld village, or it can be joined from the disused railway line alongside the road to the quarry. At Bacup the headwater of the Irwell is discoloured by ochre deposits from a disused mine but work is being done to stop the ochre seepage. Another major source of pollution until recently came from a disused tar distillery in Mirfield. Rippon Tor Rifle Range is a disused rifle range within Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England. There are many areas that provide space for interesting walks, including commons, parks, canals, and disused railway tracks. The single line was slewed onto the disused up formation to make way for the future redoubling. A spokesman for the fire service said the brick-built air shaft, which led to a disused mine, gave way outside the house in Hughes Road, Moxley. Show More Sentences Much of the material was used to fill disused cesspits behind the buildings fronting onto Bridge Street. She remembers a neighbour delving into her disused cloam oven and fishing out two antique irons. A big fence will derail vandals and nosy parkers on a disused railway line, it is claimed. Today, the only visible remnants of the mines are disused shafts and boreholes. Police have been searching a disused brickworks and a surrounding copse and lake near Norton Barracks in Worcestershire. The article was accompanied by photos of the cemetery, which is said to have been disused for more than 20 years but not deconsecrated. At Llanbadrig Point, a small disused cliff quarry, now colonised by heath and grassland, attracts butterflies including wall brown, grayling and gate-keeper. Additional nature conservation areas were created beside the river in the 20th century, when a number of disused gravel pits, were rehabilitated as nature reserves. Before the demise of most European peregrines, a large population of peregrines in central and western Europe used the disused nests of other large birds. Whilst the eastbound section follows the straight line of the disused Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway, the westbound section has numerous bends with climbs and dips. Today it is a disused, and largely infilled, sand and gravel quarry. Most new British circuits were being built on disused Royal Air Force airfields, and Silverstone, located in Northamptonshire in central England, was one of those circuits. The disused tracks of the Longridge line still exist as far as Deepdale. After leaving the woods, the path climbs past the waterfalls of the Afon Llan to the glacial cirque of Cwm Llan, crossing a disused incline from an abandoned slate quarry. Areas that provide for walks include Wimbledon Common, Epping Forest, Hampton Court Park, Hampstead Heath, the eight Royal Parks, canals and disused railway tracks. Nonetheless, though disused, it remains Canada's legal title and the phrase Her Majesty's Dominions is still used occasionally in legal documents in the United Kingdom. There was a proposal to build a multisports stadium for Northern Ireland at the disused Maze prison outside Lisburn for the use of Rugby, Gaelic games and football. Works include the W demolition of a former caretaker's house, renovation of a disused track and the shoring up of old cellars to prevent cave-ins. By finding homes in disused or even derelict buildings, micropubs can keep their overheads low and offer beer at more competitive prices than traditional rivals, Protz said. Preston Docks, an industrial port are now disused for commercial purposes. Show More Sentences He had originally bought a disused ironmongers in Frinton and got planning permission for a bistro, restaurant and wine bar but the Council initially voted 6-5 against a pub. Both proposals involve the restoration of an 1879 train shed and its conversion into an office, complete with its own disused rail track running through it. There are around 260 used and disused airfields in Scotland including bases in Scotstoun in Glasgow, Loch Doon in Ayrshire and Aboyne in Aberdeenshire. Examples from Classical Literature Is she the sort of person who'd waste an afternoon in a disused greenhouse? The disused door into her room was locked, and the key safe on the housekeeper's bunch. The English speech, long disused, came to her unhandily, but the purport of what she said was plain. I had had the man removed to a disused cabin, and when I got there the door was locked. The title of communitas Venetiarum, long disused in actual practice, was formally changed to the Signoria. But it had been disused for some time, and the pipe in the lion's mouth was dry. The giant biodomes built in a disused china clay pit in St Austell, Cornwall, contain thousands of exotic plants from around the world. The oil came from a disused factory complex nearly a mile from the sea when vandals opened stopcocks. But these disused gasometers could appeal to adventurous urbanites appreciative of extraordinary design and experimental communality. It was as if he came in by a disused door or window and found the way blocked by furniture. The old strap, now long disused, hung in the chimney corner. Their favourite national landmark was Big Ben and they said disused factories and rundown industrial estates were the worst type of eyesores. The rooms were low and cramped, and had a mouldy, disused smell in them. The passage, whithersoever it led, had been disused for years. The old tongue of the Church was now to be disused in public worship. Between us and the dwelling house there was a disused pigsty. They presently struck into a trail that soon diverged again into a disused logging track through the woods. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of disused? Words that rhyme with disused What is the adjective for disused? What is the noun for disused? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words disuse disunity disunited disunite disunion disulfide disutility disvalue disvalued disvirgin disyllabic disyllable 7-letter Words Starting With d di dis disu disus disuse