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Example sentences for "common use"

  • These adjectives are in common use and we should be familiar with the correct forms.

  • There are five personal pronouns in common use: I, you, he, she, and it.

  • All these words, which she learns by heart to use occasionally, are now in common use.

  • The first is the expression in common use; the last is that of some metaphysicians, who conceived that in adopting it they were introducing a highly important distinction.

  • The experiments of Schotte and Gaertner, and of Sternberg, prove the inefficiency of small doses of most of the disinfectants in common use.

  • The large rubber bags now in common use, filled with hot water and from time to time applied to the lumbar region, may be employed with good effect simultaneously with iced, spirituous, or camphorated applications to the head.

  • A) Produces the hops of commerce, but should be in common use as an ornamental plant.

  • For labeling trees, various kinds of zinc tallies are in common use, as shown in Figs.

  • Of the former, there are three materials in common use--Paris green, arsenate of lead, and hellebore.

  • Such a process, generally supplemented, as in this case, by a few stitches of fine needlework, was still in common use at a far later time.

  • But the majority bear one of their special devices, four of which are recognized as in common use.

  • It is also worthy of remark that these opaque enamels differ from those in common use to-day, in that they are not nearly so opaque.

  • Another way to tin the iron that is in common use is to rub the point of a hot iron on a piece of sal-ammoniac, or dip the hot iron in reduced muriatic acid, then rub the stick of solder on the iron.

  • Years of experience and observation have shown the author that the methods herein described are entirely practical and are in common use today.

  • There are several different-shaped irons in common use today, but an iron shaped like the one in Fig.

  • One of the first plumbing fixtures put into common use was a hollowed-out stone which served as a sink.

  • To show how little people generally, and even teachers, are aware of the extent to which children misconceive the meaning of words in common use, I have transcribed a few examples from an examination of the kind which I once held.

  • These are definitions taken at random from a book in common use in our public schools.

  • This sober scrutiny into any one's knowledge of the meaning of words in common use, is one of the most reliable tests of his general intellectual progress and cultivation.

  • The word beer is also in common use as the generic name for all malt liquors.

  • The plural form (originally a Latin word without a singular) is in common use, and is pronounced, after the English method of Latin, ?

  • In the time of Isaiah the Mule was evidently in common use as a riding animal for persons of distinction.

  • Thornton shows that the word was already in common use in 1835.

  • Halliwell (Phillips): A Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms, Containing Words now Obsolete in England All of Which are Familiar and in Common Use in America, 2nd ed.

  • Others, which have long been obsolete in England, are still retained in common use among us.

  • The cutting down and epitomizing of the Codex is more obscure; probably it began at once; the incomplete or condensed forms were those in common use.

  • This word is still in common use in New England.

  • In the Booandik tribe of South Australia persons connected by marriage, except husbands and wives, spoke to each other in a low whining voice, and employed words different from those in common use.

  • Amongst the Moquis of Arizona stone knives, hatchets, and so on have passed out of common use, but are retained in religious ceremonies.


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


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