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Example sentences for "generally used"

  • The vang-stock is generally used to slip the noose over the hind leg of an ox unwilling to be caught.

  • Perhaps the most primitive form is that of the common hoop or landing net, so generally used on our coasts for catching shrimps.

  • Then for the sheave select a log of the hardest wood conveniently obtainable; lignum vitae is generally used, but many kinds of acacia would answer very well.

  • Salt or boric acid is generally used in the warm water.

  • The eyes should be closed and the jaws held in position by means of a support placed firmly under the chin; for this a roller bandage or a small padded piece of wood is generally used.

  • Tartaric acid is generally used by commercial candy makers, but is much more injurious to health.

  • To represent the sound itself the spelling cooee is generally used.

  • A very old word, generally used in connexion with "cracked.

  • Generally used to denote "work" of the three-card and kindred descriptions.

  • The Spiral Bandage The Spiral Bandage is generally applied to the trunk and extremities, but is apt to fall off even when very carefully applied; therefore the recurrent bandage, which folds back again, is generally used.

  • The Mosaic braid, which is comparatively cheap, is generally used.

  • The llama is generally used as a beast of burden, while the former are used chiefly for their flesh and wool.

  • Generally used ironically to call attention to a literary error.

  • Weevil= is a popular name for a large number of beetles, marked by a beak or proboscis, generally used by both sexes as a boring organ.

  • MOON, a month—generally used to express the length of time a person has been sentenced by the magistrate; thus “ONE MOON” is one month.

  • It is generally used instead of an oath, calling vengeance on the asseverator, if such and such does not come to pass.

  • The word in this narrow sense is as old as "adit," a term less expressive and not so generally used in the English-speaking mining world.

  • We have for the same reason adopted the word "drift" instead of the term "level" so generally used in America, because that term always leads to confusion in discussion of mine surveys.

  • Transgression is generally used now to describe some rather serious offence, but it literally means only a "stepping across.

  • When spirit came to be generally used, ghost came to have the special meaning which it has for us now--that of the apparition of a dead person.

  • To secure the loose end of the envelope a small quantity of paste, coloured brown with chicory, is generally used.

  • Now bisulphuret of carbon is generally used as the solvent.

  • A lighted candle is generally used to test an atmosphere suspected to contain carbonic acid: but it is found that air that will support combustion will contain sufficient of this gas to cause insensibility.

  • Generally used in medicine externally, in injections, or as a caustic, but sometimes given internally, dissolved in mucilaginous liquids.

  • Where et alone carries the adversative sense, it is generally used to join two opposing verbs or verbal phrases: compare Cic Tusc I 6 'fieri .

  • The Norman pointed shield is generally used in Heraldic paintings in ecclesiastical buildings: the escutcheons of maiden ladies and widows are painted on a lozenge-shaped shield.

  • A French word, generally used in heraldry instead of the English word abased.

  • It is generally used as an abatement in coats of arms to denote illegitimacy.

  • It is generally used without a preposition.

  • The Ablative Absolute is generally used in Latin where in English we employ subordinate clauses.

  • The former of these words is generally used in England, the latter in America.

  • It is most generally used of that very sect," etc.

  • To" is generally used when a considerable number of pages is named.

  • A drop-folio is generally used on a page on which a chapter begins or on a page containing an illustration extending to its top.

  • O is generally used only in direct address; and, as the name of the person or thing addressed immediately follows it, it takes no mark of punctuation after it.

  • Any wire or a conductor of any kind can be charged with electricity, but a Leyden jar, or other condenser, is generally used to hold an electric charge because it has a much larger capacitance, as its capacity is called, than a wire.

  • Galena is the crystal that is generally used, for, while it is not quite as sensitive as silicon and iron pyrites, it is easier to obtain a sensitive piece.

  • This kind of a rotary spark-gap is called non-synchronous and it is generally used where a 60 cycle alternating current is available but it will work with other higher frequencies.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "generally 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:
    ancient history; defence against; far the greater number; generally about; generally accepted; generally adequate; generally admitted; generally applied; generally called; generally distributed; generally found; generally known; generally represented; generally restricted; generally supposed; generally understood; later periods; little flock; municipal elections; never gave; partly owing; raising money; seems good; small lake; when every; with something