mothball|mothballed|mothballing|mothballs in English

verb

inactivate, take out of use, put into storage

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1. They also smell of mothballs.

2. He smelt of expensive soap, sandalwood and mothballs.

3. I thought those were mothballed in the'90s.

4. She was then mothballed and returned to rejoin the reserve fleet at Plymouth.

5. Long-mothballed projects like widening the Suez Canal are being dusted off.

6. Midway spent five years in the mothball fleet at Bremerton, Washington before being taken over by a museum group.

7. Thousands of World War II era vehicles are still mothballed today at “Boneyards” throughout the southwestern United States

8. After almost 5 years, on 20 September 1951, Rowe was brought out of mothballs and recommissioned 5 October 1951.

9. Langley was taken out of "mothballs" early in 1951, refurbished and transferred to France under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program.

10. India plans to mothball its mainstay MiG-21 Soviet-era fighter jets, which have earned the sobriquet "flying coffins" because of their dismal safety record.

11. In the following decades most of the Battleships of the major powers were scrapped, “mothballed” (stripped down and placed in storage), or sold to lesser navies

12. In 1923, after the Washington Naval Treaty, there were discussions within the Navy Ministry about closing the facility, and it was largely mothballed until 1936.

13. But manned space flight in America is now in mothballs, and in these dispirited times even the pride visitors take in the dam is mingled with wistfulness.

14. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on 1 October ordered energy authorities to study the possible use of the mothballed Bataan nuclear power plant and to consult the concerned communities.The Philippines spent $2.3 billion on a 621MWe

15. A total of 13 piers were constructed along the west bank of the St. Johns River adjacent to NAAS Green Cove Springs to house a U.S. Navy "Mothball Fleet" of some 500 vessels, primarily destroyers, destroyer escorts and fleet auxiliaries.

16. I 'll Await a second viewing to decide whether this really is Haneke at his very best, but for now I suspect that The White Ribbon will be the film that will most resound in the mind after the red carpet has been rolled up and put in mothballs for yet another year.