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.
• And when the land went unused, the tribe asked for that land back.
  — Mark Trahant, Star Tribune, 8 May 2021
• At the end of the day, more than half of the 1,100 doses were left unused.
  — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021
• The two men cut a deal for Ryan to take over the club’s unused kitchen space.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2021
• 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
• There's still some space left unused, but much less of it.
  — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 19 Apr. 2021
• Any green cards that go unused by the end of a fiscal year go to waste.
  — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• By 2018, the track had closed its doors and was going unused.
  — ArsTechnica, 22 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Both of these will be fully paid for with unused funds from the Cares Act.
  — USA Today, 2 Nov. 2020
• 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
• The restaurant did announce some good news and said the OTR space won't go unused.
  — Laura Mazade, The Enquirer, 4 Mar. 2021
• At the same time, your body stores the unused glucose as fat, which can prompt weight gain, Dr. Boots says.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 20 May 2025
• Click and drag unused applications to the Trash icon in the dock.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
• The restaurant fund has a lot of money that may go unused.
  — Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 4 Dec. 2020
• 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
• If the ribbons go unused in 2021, they can be saved for the following year.
  — Charles Passy, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
• Hatred leads all the unused clones of Hank and Dean into battle to aid Brock.
  — Mat Olson, Vulture, 19 July 2023
• Three buildings, the last of which was constructed during the fall of 2020, sit unused at the site.
  — Dan O’Brien, ProPublica, 31 Mar. 2021
• Since then, the motel has sat unused even as the city’s new mayor, Mike Johnston, bought or leased other hotels around the city and quickly moved in people living on the streets.
  — Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2025
• Small things to cut are being found, such as city cellphones that are going unused, while other cuts are more significant.
  — R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2025