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
• 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
• One place where unused files can build up is in your Downloads folder.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
• Next door, behind a rusty chain-link fence, sits a huge old power plant, long unused.
  — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• Huntzinger even managed to find a set of original, unused 1942 Firestone tires to shod the front and rear wheels.
  — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2022
• 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
• There was just one problem: Tyler was an unused substitute throughout the match, which Everton won 2-0.
  — Colin Millar, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 28 Jan 2025