Sentence examples for were little used from inspiring English sources

Until recently, cholera vaccines were little used.

In the temperate zone, where sugar production was not possible, slaves were little used except in tobacco-growing areas.

Even though the first centrifugal pump was introduced about 1680, kinetic pumps were little used until the 20th century.

Such lines were little used until the mid-19th century, mainly because surveys had not generally been made in sufficient detail for them to be employed successfully.

Waterwheels for power, known in Anatolia in Augustus' reign, were little used; a few examples in Gaul belong only to the later empire.

Elias Snitzer, a researcher at American Optical, demonstrated the first optical amplifier in 1961, but such devices were little used until the spread of communications based on fibre optics.

My own handwriting is little used now.

All-metal instruments are made but are little used professionally.

They are little used now, except where relief is incidental.

The pipeline is little used at the moment.

(The Oxford English Dictionary notes that the word is "little used in modern colloquial English").