Example sentences for: usk

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

  • Here is Skeat fuming at a correspondent who had the gall to suggest that the origin of the Ox - in Oxford , long a bone of etymological contention, could be traced through Usk to a connection with Gaelic uisque `water,' as in uisquebaugh literally `water of life,' from which we get whiskey (etymologically speaking):

  • They will never cease to repeat that Ox is a “corruption” of Ouse, or Ose, or Usk, or something else that is completely ridiculous.


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