Example sentences for: usages

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

  • The hyphens that separate -athon from the base morpheme is most new usages surely are self-conscious attempts to call attention to the wit invested in the coinage, like parsley atop a casserole of leftovers.

  • It takes no more than a preliminary skim to suspect what is soon substantiated in the ample sources and usages that accompany most entries—that it is within the military services of the United States and Great Britain, from the times of the World Wars, that the F-words have their truest homes.

  • The curious collector of Southern folk usages of this type need only consult the Oxford English Dictionary for enlightenment about the origin and the longevity of language.

  • It seems unnecessary, when we have available terms like informal, colloquial, formal, nonstandard, literary, poetic , and even conversational (though I have never seen the last used), to come up with still another set of labels, but Jules Hook, the author of a number of responsible and useful works dealing with English, feels that FF and SWE (for `family and friends' and `standard written English,' respectively) tell the user something that he might not already know or feel about usages of borderline words.

  • Auditors could, for example, compare expected to actual usages of hardware resources in order to identify emerging computer capacity problems.


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