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"Usage" in a Sentence (18 examples)
The proliferation of Internet usage has given birth to a new generation of young people.
As an Englishman, he is particularly sensitive to the differences between English and American usage.
The distinction in usage between the two words is clear.
Mr Jones is very sensitive to the nuances of English and American usage.
Could you teach me how people distinguish between these words in common usage?
This is a book on modern English usage.
This car must have had tough usage.
This dictionary puts a special emphasis on usage.
To give a definition of a word is more difficult than to give an illustration of its usage.
He has an eye for good English usage.
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[S]everal young people sung sacred music in the churchyard at night, which it seems is an usage here.
Mrs. Wickam, agreeably to the usage of some ladies in her condition, pursued […] the subject, without any compunction.
Demand continues to increase, and in 2023-24 recorded usage was higher than pre-COVID, with 384,000 passenger journeys in total (of which 247,000 were at the town location). At the other end of the branch, Truro station had usage of 1.19 million, of which 255,000 were recorded as interchange passengers.
In descriptive fact, word senses are established by usage.
usage prescriptions
In prescriptive ideal, writers will optimize their usage.
Whose sharp provokement them incenst so sore, / That both were bent t'avenge his usage base […]
Satisfy a child by a constant course of your care and kindness, that you perfectly love him, and he may by degrees be accustom'd to bear very painful and rough usage from you, without flinching or complaining
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