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Example sentences for "are used"

  • Should the animal prove of a cowardly nature and refuse to attack repeatedly, banderillas de fuego (fire) are used.

  • There follows an exhortation to obey the clergy, and the early date of the Epistle is again suggested by the fact that the titles which are used in his later epistles are not given to the clergy of Thessalonica.

  • The numbers 5, 10, and 7 are used as helps to memory.

  • In the last chapter very similar words are used to assert that the writer is he whom Jesus loved.

  • Justin Martyr speaks of "your twelve tribes" in addressing Trypho[2] the Jew, and several instances are to be found in early Christian literature where the words are used in this literal sense.

  • Chlorine has also marked germicidal properties, and the free element, as well as compounds from which it is easily liberated, are used as disinfectants.

  • Most of them are insoluble, and some of the copper salts, which are green, are used as pigments.

  • The sulphides of arsenic, both those produced artificially and those found in nature, are used as yellow pigments.

  • Not only is it one of the most common reagents in the laboratory, but enormous quantities of it are used in many of the industries, especially in the refining of petroleum, the manufacture of nitroglycerin, sodium carbonate, and fertilizers.

  • A substance which serves this purpose is called a mordant, and aluminium salts, particularly the acetate, are used in this way.

  • Drift or drive-bolts are used to drive out others.

  • Commonly made of steel, are used as long punches for driving out other bolts.

  • The St. George's white ensign flag and pendant alone are used.

  • Are used to prevent chips and other matters getting to, and fouling the action of, the chain-pumps.

  • Such nails as are used to fasten clamps; they are short and stout, with large heads.

  • The weaving frame consists simply of four sticks--placed on the ground tied together in a rectangle or triangle, and pieces of reed on which the thread is wound, one for each colour, are used as shuttles.

  • The wooden strips BB are used to hold the sand, which would otherwise slide out of the flask when the two halves of the mold are separated.

  • Write out in full the words for which 'em and an't are used.

  • The words shall and will are used to indicate future time; as, I shall go; you will go; he will go.

  • In the preparation of some brands of cocoa, alkalies, such as soda and potash, are used to form a combination with the fat to prevent its separating in oily globules.

  • Moreover, both parts of it are used in other combinations referring to entirely different things.

  • In addition to the nitrates, phosphates, and potassium salts, important amounts of lime and sulphuric acid, and some gypsum, are used in connection with soils.

  • For the making of cement, in metallurgical fluxes, and in most of the manufacturing and agricultural uses, both limestone and lime (limestone with the CO2 driven out by heating) are used.

  • While no two wells or two districts act exactly alike, these curves have group characteristics which are used as a rough basis for interpreting the future.

  • Rods of two to three years' growth, known as "sticks," are used to form the rigid framework of the bottoms and lids of square work.

  • The sands are very pure and are used in glass making.

  • The term shear is generally applied when the lathe is provided with legs, while the term bed is used when there are no legs; it may be noted, however, that by some workmen the two terms of shear and bed are used indiscriminately.

  • The ch and j are used for an earlier t and d in a few words, through intensification of the thin sounds of the latter.

  • When the auxiliaries gwîl and gally are used to form a passive, it is sometimes the auxiliary that takes the passive form.

  • Meriasek, helma and holma are used for this, and it is easy to imagine helna and holna for that.

  • For the same reason domestic species are used in preference to the wild ones, these latter possessing a highly acrid taste.

  • Either rattan strips or pieces of a peculiar vine[5] are used in lashing the beams and crosspieces to the posts, whereas for the other fastenings, rattan strips are universally employed.

  • When they can not be obtained, other plants [13] are used, but they are an inferior substitute.

  • As a wash for the hair, wild lemons, the seed of an uncommon tree whose name has escaped my memory, and the bark of a tree, are used sporadically.

  • It is needless to say that the ordinary colors, with a predominance of red, are used.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "are used" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    added hastily; are always; are apt; are bound; are but; are made; are more; are not; are ready; are said; are still; are the; are the best known; are unable; certain extent; considerable booty; fine sand; five million; native city; religious duties; servants shall; sickly smile; suffrage movement; that province; till thou; when boiling