Plea (in the legal sense) is properly used of the pleadings or the arraignment before a trial, not of the argument at a trial.
Succession is properly used of several things following one after the other; it denotes order of occurrence only, and does not imply any connection.
The whole is properly used of something which is considered as one thing.
As is properly used as an adverb when the equality is asserted, but, when the equality is denied, so should be used in its place.
The indicative mode would be properly used in the following sentence, when the statement is regarded as true: If that evidence is true, then he is a criminal.
May, with its past tense, might, is properly used to denote permission.
Much can be accomplished by these measures if properly used, in allaying inflammation diminishing pain and reducing the size of the piles.
As we occasionally find this dread of water only in the human subject, the term is properly used in such a case.
The systematic use of galvanic electricity, properly used, is the most valuable means at the physician's disposal, especially in the descending current, beginning with the mild current and gradually increasing in strength.
Now mark, he says, that "a citizen is a person who has certain political rights, and the word is properly used only to imply or suggest the possession of those rights.
He says: A citizen is a person who has certain political rights, and the word is properly used only to imply or suggest the possession of these rights.
Ought, under the name of a defective verb, is now generally thought to be properly used, in this one form, in all the persons and numbers of the present and the imperfect tense of the indicative and subjunctive moods.
The terms theory and theoretical are properly used in opposition to the terms practice and practical.
Of the two words, moreover is the stronger and is properly used in solemn discourse, or when what is added is important to be considered.
The word is properly used, both in singular and plural form, as folk, its correct signification being “people, collectively or distributively.
Properly used only of considerable transactions, and always with a suggestion of permanent proprietary right.
The first of these words which is properly used as expressive of “having a tendency” is improperly used in referring to a contingent event regarded as “very probable.
It isproperly used with a reflexive verb without emphasis, as "I will defend myself.
The word is properly used as an adjective, but should not be employed as an adverb, as in the sentence, "He sings first-rate.
Adopt is properly used in a sentence like this: "The course (or measures) proposed by Mr. Blank was adopted by the committee.
It is properly used in the sense in which we are wont most inelegantly to use the word smart, though it is a less colloquial term, and is of wider application.
Murals, properly used, are extremely decorative but should be used under the guidance of an expert who understands the correct application of the mural to the wall.
This knowledge, properly used, will of course enable sales to be speeded up, a larger number of customers to be waited on, and a larger percentage of sales to be made.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "properly used" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
