One American critic, for example, declared with splendid rhetoric in 1956: "Like a decommissioned man-of-war, he rests quietly at anchor in poetry's mothball fleet".
One man with a decommissioned cab tried to convince Wei Ziqi that the police weren't likely to pull him over, because the car was white, whereas most former taxis were red.
In 2008 they presented Caridad Svich's "Twelve Ophelias" in a drained swimming pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and in 2009 they staged an adaptation of Herman Melville's "Confidence-Man" aboard the Lilac, a decommissioned Coast Guard vessel moored in the Hudson.
In an out-of-use canal in Brooklyn there are a bunch of shirtless men running around on a decommissioned ferry boat that they bought.
I navigated highways on instinct and learned to sleep comfortably in strange places: a remote Georgia island where wild horses ran freely on the beach, a former nursing home in Cincinnati that seemed haunted with its series of doors slamming at midnight, a decommissioned Navy base, and in the beds of men I'd just met.
In East Berlin, the administration collapsed; the former GDR capital became a 'temporary autonomous zone.' Suddenly, there were all these spaces to discover: a panzer chamber in the dusty no man's land of the former death strip, a World War II bunker, a decommissioned soap factory on the Spree, a transformer station opposite the erstwhile Reich Ministry of Aviation.
How about a decommissioned Coast Guard cutter?
Midway, a decommissioned aircraft carrier moored in San Diego Bay.
Ma Qiang, a decommissioned soldier living across the street, described a sickening scene.
She had a decommissioned lighthouse from Lake Champlain rebuilt on the property.
He "has shot himself in the foot with, no doubt, a decommissioned Sinn Féin blunderbuss".
