Example sentences for: used--

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

  • Likewise with Myanmar, the name now used-- at least in the non-U.S.-English-speaking world--for what used to be called Burma . The official name of the country in Burmese has, since independence from Britain, been Pyidaungsu Socialist Thammada Myanma Naingngandaw , so Myanmar, it seems, is simply Burmese for Burma . This is the same phenomenon as Côte d'Ivoire . But the current Myanmarese (do I venture where angels fear to tread by coining the adjective?)

  • It's a trick other people have used--P.L. Travers, in the Mary Poppins books, for example, always has a chapter in which one of the kids loses her temper, one in which we visit a relative of Mary Poppins' for tea, one in which Mary has a birthday, and so on.

  • In the United States in 1996, big organizations funded the general election sites that everyone used--ABC, the Washington Post , and the National Journal fathered PoliticsNow, and Time and CNN sired AllPolitics -- and most major papers and TV channels, notably the new MSNBC, had election pages.


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