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Example sentences for "modern usage"

  • To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

  • These words were formerly interchanged; but in modern usage a distinction has sprung up between them.

  • In modern usage of the verb this word is confined to the past participle.

  • The tendency of modern usage is to remand ill and well (referring to condition of health) to the predicate.

  • Firstly has been used by Dickens, De Quincey, and others but in modern usage first is the preferred form.

  • Because the explanation must be, "Each strives to excel other;" and such a construction of the word other is not agreeable to modern usage.

  • For what "modern usage inclines to reject," can hardly be the fashion in which any ideas "are usually expressed.

  • This, with reference to modern usage, is plainly erroneous.

  • The Thames Tunnel is the most remarkable example of this kind of work.

  • Pumps are used for lifting fluids above their level into some higher situation, such as from the hold of a ship or from a well.

  • It is the concrete juice of a large tree, supposed to be the Isonandra Gutta, and is brought to Europe in irregular masses of a brown color, and contains various impurities which are easily got rid of by working it in hot water.

  • Bestial, in modern usage, implies an intensified and degrading animalism.

  • In modern usage we may say that an allegory is an extended simile, while a metaphor is an abbreviated simile contained often in a phrase, perhaps in a word.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modern usage" 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:
    being held; little pleasure; modern astronomy; modern business; modern chemistry; modern church; modern critics; modern economic; modern education; modern fiction; modern geology; modern history; modern ideas; modern industrial; modern industry; modern languages; modern methods; modern music; modern painting; modern reader; modern society; modern thought; modern times; modern warfare; molten lava; rational animal