Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: unused
IPA transcription: [ənj'uzd]
Pronunciations of unused
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fresh, unused
    Meaning: not yet used or soiled; "a fresh shirt"; "a fresh sheet of paper"; "an unused envelope"
Usage examples
  • Long unused to any self-control, the piercing agony of her remorse and grief was terrible.
  • The miners found what the great banks have always found, that the presence of unused gold is a nuisance and a curse.
  • Dolly heard a great clatter of four people leaving their clogs and cloaks in the hall, and would not move out of the unused drawing-room, in which for the moment she was seated.
  • When one wishes to save or increase wealth, he turns to these great unappropriated fields, unused things or things imperfectly used, and tries to convert them into effective agents.
  • After the bare yellow stubble and all the reds and browns of a California summer landscape, its rich dark green color and its stanch, strong stalks made it seem a very plain honest sort of field, and its greenness was most grateful to eyes unused to the bright colors and strong lights of California.
  • It would call upon men to contribute for public expenses in proportion to the natural opportunities they monopolize, and make it unprofitable for speculators to hold land unused or only partly used, thus opening to labor unlimited fields of employment, solving the labor problem and abolishing involuntary poverty.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording John Locke, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Wage reform in the Soviet Union, 1956–62, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ten percent of the brain myth, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Mourning dove, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Crash test dummy, License CC BY-SA 4.0