How to Use underused in a Sentence

underused

adjective
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  • For Cyd and Kilpatrick, the best and most underused area in the house was the garage.
    — Samantha Weiss Hills, Curbed, 17 June 2019
  • Tips and Sources Pick an underused, flat area in the yard.
    — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Back-of-the-Door Toy Storage One of the most underused spaces in most homes is the inside of doors.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Corn milk scraped from the cob is an underused culinary item.
    — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The best performers in the film bring a lot but are often underused.
    — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • There has been at least some level of buffing for underused skills and builds, with more to come.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • The U.S. Postal Service has said that the downtown post office is underused and too large.
    — Tom Lochner, The Mercury News, 17 June 2017
  • This was the case for the DualShock 4’s touch-screen, an underused mechanic on the PS4.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Task an underused surface, such as a dresser top, to be your desk and keep a chair nearby.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Early on, the record lived underused in DJs’ vinyl cases.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Below, experts explain why Paxlovid is underused—and what needs to be done to change that.
    — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Part of the appeal to him was the underused nature of the space: some grass and trees, the remnants of an old military building, and killer views of the city skyline.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Built in the late 1980s, the park is now underused and in disrepair, with splintered wooden bleachers and ragged ball fields.
    — Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 July 2017
  • Of the $25 billion in the first batch of money, Treasury has already moved $2 billion in underused funds.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Gazprom could reroute half of the supply to an underused pipeline running through Belarus and Poland.
    — Anna Shiryaevskaya, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Yet the drugs have remained underused, studies have found.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Yet the drugs have remained underused, studies have found.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And when Hemisfair, that great swath of land just south of downtown, sat underused and mostly ignored by the city at large.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • This led to concerns that the 2019 red flag law was underused, likely not well-known or understood.
    — Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • City staff said the provider would take advantage of underused space within the historic church and would not conflict with any church use of the building.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Learn how to convert an underused area of your home into a customized space that best suits your needs.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2021
  • Long told the wire service that the cuts were made in rural areas or with underused halfway houses.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Cooper Kupp got the bulk of the important throws in the first four weeks, while Robert Woods was curiously underused.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The handoff was planned for late afternoon on a weekday, at an underused trailhead in a Texas park.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Many of the states already have the infrastructure in place like old or underused power plants that can be tapped to mine crypto.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2022
  • TriMet will add to several bus routes in the tri-county area and cut underused lines starting Sunday.
    — oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The chief problem is that Daniel Wu is terribly underused.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Nothing underused has been buffed in skill trees, weapon types, perks, set bonuses, anything.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • But the pair were completely underused, and exited at the end of season five with John Pleshette as Laura’s husband Richard.
    — Marc Berman, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • But Gaga, who has a lovely unforced presence in Folie à Deux, is drastically underused.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2024

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