Sentence example with the word 'desuetude'

desuetude

abandonment, abstinence, cessation, closure, discontinuation, ending, jettison, nonemployment, obsolescence, obsoletism, retirement, unprevalence

Definition n. a state of inactivity or disuse

Last update: August 27, 2015


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When they fell into desuetude, malaria gained the upper hand, the lack of drainage providing breeding-places for the malarial mosquito.   [Please select]

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They are not habitations, which connote life; they are repositories, which connote desuetude.   [Please select]

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"Spitfire" dropped into desuetude as a nickname and was replaced by "Raney"; there were no more concerted "raggings" or resultant cut heads, and the former eccentricities of an outsider became the caprices of a hero.   [Please select]

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Now, the colonel of a regiment of light cavalry is so little given to beg for things that the word beg has almost lapsed out of his vocabulary from desuetude.   [Please select]

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