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Example sentences for "much used"

  • The roots contain a volatile oil which is much used in medicine and perfumery.

  • It is much used in the manufacture of furniture and ranks third in use for veneer and hard wood distillation, and as a fuel wood is excelled only by hickory.

  • There are good reasons why white oak should be much used in reforestation.

  • The inner bark collected in spring is much used in medicine under the name of slippery elm.

  • East Indian tree, much used as a seasoning in cookery.

  • Is it of these resins that the mastic and copal varnishes, so much used in painting, are made?

  • Sulphureous acid is readily absorbed by water; and in this liquid state it is found particularly useful in bleaching linen and woollen cloths, and is much used in manufactures for those purposes.

  • The white lead, so much used in paint, owes its pernicious effects to oxygen.

  • A preparation that is much used in nourishing drinks and that furnishes a great deal of nutrition is malted milk.

  • Molasses is not so sweet as sugar, but it is much used as an ingredient in the making of many delicious confections.

  • Another favorite confection and one that is much used in connection with candies for social functions is candied orange, lemon, and grapefruit peel.

  • It is much used in perfumery, especially in hair cosmetics.

  • Dissolved in rectified spirit it is much used as a flavouring substance by confectioners and liquoristes.

  • The common white mulberry was formerly used as a stock for named varieties, but Russian mulberry seedlings are now much used.

  • In the warmer parts of the country peach is much used.

  • This style of screens is much used by nurserymen, especially for cutting beds.

  • At Bellevue Hospital the following is much used: viz.

  • The mercurials, formerly so much used, are now discredited to an unwarranted degree.

  • Had tinning been then as much used as at present, some tinned vessels must have been found.

  • This proves that these stones were much used by the ancients.

  • He informs us that the above practice was not so much used in Italy and Greece, where snow could be procured, as in Egypt and other warm countries, where neither snow nor cool springs were to be found.

  • It is much used in staining embryonic specimens in bulk before embedding in paraffin, and was strongly recommended for that purpose by Foster and Maitland Balfour.

  • It also stains the axis cylinders of nerves, and is much used in special staining of the nerve centres as will be described later, (pp.

  • The first named has always been much used because of its agreeable odour, its cheapness, and the ease with which it can be obtained.

  • Altar is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, altar bread or altarÐbread.

  • It is much used in composition, as almsgiver, almsgiving, alms bag, alms chest, etc.

  • All is much used in composition to enlarge the meaning, or add force to a word.

  • Air is much used adjectively or as the first part of a compound term.

  • The difference in specific gravity between cream and milk is taken advantage of in the mechanical separator, now so much used, and which makes such a thorough separation between the two.

  • Preservatives are now not nearly so much used as they were, a few years ago, and there should be no difficulty in obtaining milk free from them.

  • Major St. John tells me that the Terlán, or goshawk, much used in Persia, is still generally brought from Caucasus.

  • In the 5th century we find the Seven Arts to form the successive subjects of the last seven books of the work of Martianus Capella, much used in the schools during the early Middle Ages.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "much 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:
    large stone; likes best; much afraid; much astonished; much attached; much celebrated; much chance; much cultivated; much disturbed; much easier; much engaged; much finer; much flour; much happier; much improved; much kindness; much labour; much love; much opposed; much pleasure; much respect; much sought; much uneasiness; much wealth; much wider; much wished