Example sentences for: employ

How can you use “employ” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The reason it feels so real is because it uses the latest signifier of realism--home video--and not just because it's the style of the moment (the reason most music video makers employ the technique) but because it's the best way to get across the filmmakers' Gothic vision of the world just outside your door--the nameless evil just beyond the video camera's little pool of light.

  • One True Thing doesn't employ fantasy (at least not overtly) but tries to stir similar regrets about the feminist dismissal of housewives: You moved to New York and the heartless magazine world, you dressed in black, you rejected Mom.

  • In order to distinguish between these possibilities, we sought to employ cell culture assays with well-established parameters for chondrocyte differentiation and maturation.

  • First, instead of choosing one kernel document for each gene, we employ all of the reference articles cited for each gene symbol in OMIM.

  • Green is correct in writing that the (unabridged Funk & Wagnalls) Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893) gives two pronunciations for each entry, but he is mistaken in reporting that one represents the popular pronunciation, the other showing the precise one [p.364]: there are two pronunciations because one employs a more popular, presumably understandable pronunciation key (called, in the phonetics trade, a broad transcription) while the other cleaves to a scholarly transcription (called a narrow transcription); if such a pattern were followed today, the first would be the simplified system used generally in most dictionaries and the second would employ the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (which, for their more recondite transcriptions, require a trained phonetician for their understanding).


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