What is "unusable"

Usage examples of "unusable".

In a similar fashion, amylase inhibitors in raw red kidney beans and navy beans make their carbohydrate content unusable.

Inhaled sodium azide goes into the lungs and directly into the blood, where its molecules bond with oxygen molecules and render the oxygen unusable.

Jeremy, but you have managed to snarl, tangle, fray, chew, bedevil, or otherwise make unusable every spare piece of cordage on this ship.

The three moved into the vast cellarage of the fortress, where shelves of ancient and unusable supplies loomed all about them.

They were in one unit of a rambling compound of decrepit, obsessionally Art Deco guest structures, curving walls corroded and flaking on their seaward faces, half-moon windows crossed by thin bars of pitted chrome, queer unusable prisms of space with no access.

Alas, this recommendation was not followed and the Corps continued to train unusable messenger dogs until the end of the war.

The Ithorians harvested plants from the biospheres of the ships, but particularly on their huge groundships, they also harvested from the abundant forests of Ithor-taking nourishment from fruits and grains, creating medicines from saps and pollens, using plant fibers to create fabrics and ultrastrong porcelains, harvesting minerals and energy from otherwise unusable roots and stems.

I stayed on my knees and retrieved the two flash cards from my jeans, and with the pliers part of my Leatherman I cracked and bent them into unusable shapes.

Huge tracts of land were rendered unusable for thousands of years along with the bits of Chile and Argentina that glow in the dark after their little atomic tussle.

The idea that bioweapons were never fully tested, were never made to work, or are unusable is a myth that persists to this day.

The descendants of Christian slave-women had died also, if they seemed unusable: some of the best had been given posts in exile, under supervision, often on the frontier against the feeble Christian princedoms and dukedoms of the mountainous North of Spain.

On the other hand, this capacity may be seen as politically unusable and allies and others within the United States may not be fully trusting of the possessor always to employ this force responsibly.

Item after item from the list he had set to simmer overnight was being comped out as unusable, and his contract still had nine months to run.

I have also a ruler with a jagged edge, which is quite unusable, but I keep it as a reminder of a dear friend, now in Abraham's bosom, who used to own it before I stole it.

There were still Flowers, on Optera and on many of the worlds Zor had seeded just prior to his death, but the Invid found them sterile and unusable because their Pollinators had also been taken.