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Example sentences for "principally used"

  • It is principally used in eruptive diseases, to induce moisture of the skin and keep the eruption out.

  • They are not bulbous, like onions, but have a long stem, which is principally used.

  • This oil is principally used as a vehicle for mixing the ingredients of some kinds of fire-works; and, although it is employed in that way, yet it has also an effect in combustion, having similar properties with liquid bitumen.

  • This lance (Lance à feu puant of the French) is prepared in the same manner as stink-pots, and is principally used by miners.

  • Orpiment, or the yellow sulphuret of arsenic, which is either native or artificial, is principally used in fire-works for the composition of stars.

  • It is principally used as a "fixing" ingredient, in mixing essences of delicate odor.

  • It is principally used in the manufacture of essences for the handkerchief, being too expensive for perfuming grease or soap.

  • It is principally used in caulking the seams, for stopping leaks, and for making into twice-laid ropes.

  • It is principally used to hoist any weighty materials, as the cannon, into or out of a ship.

  • It is principally used to the stays, as the dead-eyes are to the shrouds.

  • Eau de Cologne is principally used as a perfume, but a very large quantity is consumed by fashionable ladies as a cordial and stimulant.

  • It is, however, principally used as a source of cyanogen and hydrocyanic acid.

  • Chlorate of potassium is principally used in the manufacture of lucifer matches, fireworks, oxygen gas, &c.

  • It is astringent and tonic, but is principally used as an elegant vehicle for more active medicines.

  • In medicine, charcoal is principally used as a deodoriser and disinfectant, either in the form of powder or made into a poultice.

  • Cochineal is principally used to prepare lake and carmine, and in dyeing.

  • It is principally used as a test for alkalies, which turn it brown.

  • Instant--Principally used in correspondence to indicate the present month.

  • Principally used by travelers to secure credit from foreign bankers.


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