Sentence examples for Became unusable from inspiring English sources

Our beaches and docks and flats became unusable.

With the Soviet invasion of 1979, and the national resistance that rose up to fight it, the area was soon seeded with landmines and became unusable.

As the ship listed to starboard, submerging almost half of the vessel, the lifeboats on that side became unusable and people leapt into the water.

Thus the war of 1914 converted the Germans overnight into Huns, guilty of frightfulness a harmless if rare and ugly word that thereby, like appeasement later, became unusable in its wider, unloaded sense.

It describes in detail how the problem manifested for a variety of iPhone 6 Plus users, including Pennsylvania resident Thomas Davidson, whose phone became unusable less than two years after purchase.

(The much mocked overpreparation for a Year 2000 computer crash came in very handy, because all the major financial institutions and the Federal Reserve had built or upgraded off-site backup systems that could function after their main systems became unusable).

"When does a word (Christian) become unusable?" she asked.

They filled up so quickly that they become unusable.

Words also can become unusable, paradoxically, through excessive usefulness — overuse.

Does potting soil become unusable after a couple of years?

Words become unusable for all sorts of reasons.