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36 example sentences for USAGE, such as:
1. It's not a word in common usage.
2. This instrument will not stand rough usage.
3. With normal usage, the equipment should last at least five years.
4. Dictionary definitions tend to show stereotypical patterns of usage.
5. Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair.
2. This instrument will not stand rough usage.
3. With normal usage, the equipment should last at least five years.
4. Dictionary definitions tend to show stereotypical patterns of usage.
5. Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of USAGE
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usage
n. the act of using
n. accepted or habitual practice
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1 He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man.
2 Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair.
3 Literally this word means Fat-Cutter; usage, however, in time made it equivalent to Chief Harpooneer.
4 One morning upon handling the pumps, according to daily usage, it was observed that she made more water in her hold than common.
5 This improvement upon the original usage was introduced by no less a man than Stubb, in order to afford the imperilled harpooneer the strongest possible guarantee for the faithfulness and vigilance of his monkey-rope holder.
6 His person was now protected by immemorial and sacred usage, until the tribe in council had deliberated and determined on his fate.
7 In doing this, I underwent a kind of rough usage, ill befitting the wounds that my mind had sustained.
8 She never battled with the public, but submitted uncomplainingly to its worst usage; she made no claim upon it in requital for what she suffered; she did not weigh upon its sympathies.
9 But now, after such dishonorable usage, who can tell what were his designs on her.
10 It is not really long, in weeks or months; but, in my usage and experience, it is a weary, weary while.
11 If I once shook the foundations of the sacred confidence and usage, in virtue of which it was given to me, it was lost, and could never be recovered.
12 Such usage shalt thou have as was once thought good enough for a noble Saxon maiden.
13 She could not endure the idea of treachery or levity, or anything akin to ill usage between him and his friend.
14 Harsh feelings produce harsh usage, and this by reaction quenches the sentiments that gave it birth.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
15 From her workbasket in the window-seat the woman took a paper of pins, of the old long and yellow sort, whose heads were disposed to come off at their first usage.
Example Sentence:
1 The word "undertaker" had long been in common usage.
2 It's not a word in common usage.
3 With normal usage, the equipment should last at least five years.
4 This instrument will not stand rough usage.
5 Dictionary definitions tend to show stereotypical patterns of usage.
6 What drives the usage of 'God', 'Jesus', and 'Jesus Christ' as a common expletive, is heard on all sides?
7 In the wider modern usage, a spinet is a cheaper and more compact version of the full-size upright piano, used primarily in the home.
8 He moved to Berkeley as usage surged, taking a $750-a-month stipend for food and the occasional matinee movie.
9 Do the phrases that bother me qualify as variant usages, or are they simply mistakes?