Example sentences for: employs

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

  • Leaders of the county agency, which employs 14 attorneys, five paralegals, and nine support staff at offices in Paterson and Wanaque, say officials have "greatly exaggerated" the office's problems, which they call mostly bureaucratic.

  • Even the BBC no longer employs two words to describe an institution founded in 1785 but now describes The Times as The Times newspaper, as if listeners might otherwise believe that the Times Furnishing Company has taken to analyzing Mr. Major's foreign policy.

  • Unfortunately, typographical convention employs italics for emphasis.

  • 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).

  • In What Everyone Should Know About Homosexuality , LaHaye employs Galen's theory of the four humors to help explain gayness.


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