How to Use nonoperational in a Sentence

nonoperational

adjective

• Assets are nonoperational, or have been disposed of, and leadership teams just don’t know.
  — Rohit Prakash, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• Kosmos 2553 began to spin out of control in April 2025 and is believed to currently be nonoperational.
  — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 8 July 2026
• While 2022 saw the opening or reactivation of 40 coal mines, 151 mines closed or were nonoperational that same year, an 18% decline from the year before.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
• Retiring satellites are moved some 300 km above GEO to ensure that the valuable orbit doesn’t get filled up with nonoperational satellites that could collide with others and create space debris.
  — Gordon Roesler, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2017
• In particular, Rough & Ready Island, which the Navy transferred to the Port of Stockton in 1996, is home to a nonoperational golf course that DeJesus said would be a prime candidate for a shipbuilding facility.
  — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2025
• The freezing of child-care money, as well as FBI Director Kash Patel's Sunday announcement of a surge of federal agents to Minnesota, followed a viral video posted over the weekend by a conservative influencer that purported to show nonoperational child-care facilities that received federal funds.
  — Justin Papp, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2025