Sentence examples for made unusable from inspiring English sources

Worse, much of the city has been made unusable or ungainly because of construction.

The international aid organization Save the Children said this summer it estimated that more than a fifth of schools inside Syria had been destroyed or made unusable since the conflict started, affecting the education of 2.5 million youths.

Up in the topmost subbasement, a pool of shin-deep water made unusable the miles of snaking phone cables (black for copper, orange for fiber optics) in the 250-foot-long, 60-foot-wide cable vault.

I could rescue interviews made unusable on air by grunts or murmurs, edit with a facility not accorded even the sharpest scissors in the cutting room, and explain complexities that made descriptions too detailed to be used on air.

The same month, heavily armed Serbian troops, under the supervision of Russian, American and United Nations officials, flew 100 pounds of bomb-grade uranium from the Vinca nuclear reactor near Belgrade to Russia, where it will be blended with ordinary uranium and made unusable for weapons.

The wave of disruption and loss that rippled out when the towers fell -- thousands of lives lost and 15 million square feet of office space destroyed or made unusable -- affected families and businesses, as well as patterns of life, travel, work and play in the city and across the region.

An electronic hum in the song had made it unusable.

It has more pixels than the iPhone, but the shutter lag made it unusable.

They ended an old practice of moving and retraining regiments that made them unusable for at least six of every 24 months.

The council first agreed to sell the site after a kitchen fire in October 2012 that made it unusable and the Coroner's Service moved to alternative accommodation.

They were too close to the waterline, however, which made them unusable in heavy seas.