Example sentences for: usage

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

  • These are only accepted into the canon of good usage and literature after a long and vigorous rearguard action.

  • When language is perceived to be a public problem (bilingual education, poor writing test scores, nonstandard usage), the public seeks simple solutions: Make English official; teach more grammar; emphasize correctness.

  • The Nonsexist Word Finder , subtitled A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage , opens with a foreword by Miller and Swift.

  • Thus, biological mother rather than natural mother . This is not the straight-to-the-point English usage on which Americans pride themselves.

  • This is, to be sure, a super-subtle distinction; but these bits and pieces of Shakespearean usage can make a luminous difference both in reading and in performance.


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