How to Use underused in a Sentence

underused

adjective
  • Corn milk scraped from the cob is an underused culinary item.
    — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
  • There has been at least some level of buffing for underused skills and builds, with more to come.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • The best performers in the film bring a lot but are often underused.
    — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • The tracks at the Volt Forge are notable but underused.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Task an underused surface, such as a dresser top, to be your desk and keep a chair nearby.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
  • For Cyd and Kilpatrick, the best and most underused area in the house was the garage.
    — Samantha Weiss Hills, Curbed, 17 June 2019
  • Down in the lobby, there’s a chic, if slightly underused, cocktail bar.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Learn how to convert an underused area of your home into a customized space that best suits your needs.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2021
  • Turn this underused area of your yard into a vibrant landscape with a few spring-blooming bulbs.
    — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2025
  • But then there are all those fresh faces who aren’t bad, exactly, so much as severely underused.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Below, experts explain why Paxlovid is underused—and what needs to be done to change that.
    — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Long told the wire service that the cuts were made in rural areas or with underused halfway houses.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Gut instinct remains one of the most underused tools in leadership.
    — C200, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • While new roads now run through the former disaster zone, most of it is barren, filled with underused parking lots.
    — Ian Austen, New York Times, 16 July 2019
  • At stake is one of the largest pots of underused airwaves, which are owned by the public but licensed to telecom companies.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Many of the states already have the infrastructure in place like old or underused power plants that can be tapped to mine crypto.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Unattractive, underused and a stark reminder of why the city’s housing crisis persists.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The handoff was planned for late afternoon on a weekday, at an underused trailhead in a Texas park.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Underleveraged, underused, with the power to work for you?
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Curate Your Feed This one is probably the most underused of the tips.
    — Sam Saideman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
  • And when Hemisfair, that great swath of land just south of downtown, sat underused and mostly ignored by the city at large.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Gazprom could reroute half of the supply to an underused pipeline running through Belarus and Poland.
    — Anna Shiryaevskaya, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2022
  • City staff said the provider would take advantage of underused space within the historic church and would not conflict with any church use of the building.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The Tours never had any routes in the Rose Bowl, and that was always an underused aspect of the game.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Deltona’s greatest underused asset is not land or tax policy.
    — Christopher Bellingham, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
  • This led to concerns that the 2019 red flag law was underused, likely not well-known or understood.
    — Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • A lot is unstructured, in disparate places and woefully underused.
    — Munil Shah, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • TriMet will add to several bus routes in the tri-county area and cut underused lines starting Sunday.
    — oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2023
  • After that project died, the roughly 20-acre parcel functioned for decades as an oversized, underused park-and-ride.
    — Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The result is a system that is both underused and underperforming.
    — Brian Deese, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2025

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