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
• But not filing the return means the unused exemption amount doesn’t pass to the surviving spouse.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• For some employers, this culture of loving time in the office is good news for the bottom line, thanks to more than $65 billion-worth of benefits going unused.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025