Sentence examples for through disuse from inspiring English sources

A consecrated building was moldering through disuse.

His English wasn't bad at the time, but it had been lost through disuse.

Although Épi is fertile, its copra plantations have deteriorated through disuse.

He was determined that artistic skills should not wither through disuse: despite frequent Congressional griping, the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration paid painters and sculptors, actors and writers modest wages to keep doing what they did best.

It may be that visual experience is necessary, not to generate pattern perception but to maintain it; that is, the infant's built-in (innate) perceptual abilities may somehow deteriorate through disuse.

Gould notes that Paley envisages a Lamarckist kind of evolution and rebuts it with the observation that men have not lost their nipples through disuse.

Through use and disuse of certain traits and the inheritance of acquired characteristics, organisms could start to deviate from the common stock and increase in their adaptedness and thus increase in their perfection.

The hypotheses are examined in animals that are allowed normal ambulation after injury and in animals that are subjected to disuse through hindlimb unloading.

By the end of that century the practice had faded into disuse, but through the first half of the 19th century Sara Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book kept the idea alive by writing editorials and letters to presidents and governors urging their adoption of such a day.

By the end of that century the practice had faded into disuse, but through the first half of the nineteenth century Sara Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book kept the idea alive by writing editorials and letters to presidents and governors urging their adoption of such a day.

The second is more well-known and considered discredited today: the notion that organisms themselves, through intention, use and disuse, can change their bodies and that some of these changes are inherited.