The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. From LearnThat.org. [Christopher Fry, British playwright.]
There is such a thing as rudimen - tary organs which served functions long since fallen in disuse and now unremembered. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
GUPTA: There is something known as disuse atrophy, though. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2005] Reference
And it’s not really nasty gross water what with the pipes in disuse for five years?. From Wordnik.com. [Movie: Sorority House Massacre 2 « Michael in Nashville] Reference
But listen, when it comes to aging, there is something known as disuse atrophy -- just simply not using your muscles. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2005] Reference
For starters the 'disuse' syndrome will make you feel much older than you need to feel. From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
A strength training program set up properly by a fitness professional combats all of the above 'disuse' symptoms. From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
That's a lot of costly devices sitting in disuse. From Wordnik.com. [Green Bay - Anil Dash] Reference
"disuse", but there would be no formal announcement of its being disbanded. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
By action it thrives, and by disuse it becomes weakened. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
The old building was stifling hot and dusty with summer disuse. From Wordnik.com. [The Memory of Mars] Reference
The job itself shrank; whole chunks of it broke off from disuse. From Wordnik.com. [Household Appliances] Reference
You look right past them, once shiny and loud now dusty with disuse. From Wordnik.com. [From The Doctor, With Love] Reference
If you're an iPad user, you may notice the rest of your gadgets looking dusty with disuse. From Wordnik.com. [5 Gadgets The iPad Kills (VIDEO)] Reference
If you re an iPad user, you may notice the rest of your gadgets looking dusty with disuse. From Wordnik.com. [5 Gadgets The iPad Kills (VIDEO)] Reference
Why is there not simultaneous variation in teeth and jaws, if disuse is the governing factor?. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
The use of organs enlarges and strengthens them; the disuse of parts or faculties weakens them. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
It is a commonplace remark that "a man's faculties are strengthened by use, and weakened by disuse.". From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
But the fact is that the muscles had already begun their steady retreat from disuse, known as atrophy. From Wordnik.com. [A Body Divided, 5] Reference
The shortening of the sternum in pigeons is attributed to disuse of the flight muscles attached to it. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
The drawing-room was damp from disuse, and the fire had only just been lighted -- and of course I caught cold. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
The changes seen in the carapace can hardly have been brought about by the inherited effects of special disuse. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
Darwin's statements concerning the effects of use and disuse in evolution can frequently be read in two senses. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
The chain was somewhat rusty, but though it was the worse for disuse, and creaked as it was lowered, it held firm. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
But there is an almost endless abundance of conspicuous examples of the effects of use and disuse in the individual. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
It merely excludes the effect of disuse during lifetime, and thus presents a fallacious appearance of being decisive. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
His capacity for rhetoric that is even coherent, let alone inspiriting, either has atrophied from disuse or never existed. From Wordnik.com. [Good Man . . . Wrong Job?] Reference
In one sense or other, most -- or perhaps all -- of the results of natural selection are inherited effects of use or disuse. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
If individual disuse diminished the weight of the duck's wing-bones by 9 per cent. there would be nothing left to account for. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
They played fragments of the best known pieces, and sang songs from operas long since fallen into disuse even on street organs. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Mr. Spencer concludes that the concomitant variation requisite for evolution can only be caused by altered degrees of use or disuse. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
Are we to suppose that the size of the human teeth is maintained by use at the same time that the jaws are being diminished by disuse?. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
The most confident assertions of the effects of use and disuse in modifying the heritable type, appear to rest on this indefeasible basis. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
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