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Example sentences for "used only"

  • As the digger has a short handle of 5 feet, it can be used only in shallow water, where the quahauger, wading in the water, turns out the quahaugs with this narrow rake.

  • This style of dredge is used only at Chatham and the neighboring towns of Cape Cod.

  • This style of dredge is used only in the town of Mattapoisett, where the scallopers claim it is the most successful.

  • In the table it will be noticed that the outside air was used only a part of the time because of the severity of the weather.

  • Under such conditions the outside air is used only occasionally.

  • The oakum is used only to keep the lead in the joint until it cools.

  • It is used only in the present and perfect tenses.

  • Quoth and quod, for say, saith, or said, are obsolete, or used only in ludicrous language.

  • The present participle is used only as an adjective.

  • To weary; to give pain; to annoy; -- used only impersonally at present.

  • In respect to antecedents, who should be used only in reference to persons; which and what may be used with any antecedent, persons, animals, or things.

  • Am is used only with a subject in the first person, and is not a source of confusion.

  • Badly and forth may be used only as adverbs.

  • It is used only in written Bohemian, being otherwise replaced by =který=.

  • Allege is used only in referring to formal charges and not as a synonym for say or assert.

  • The relative who should be used only of persons (or of beasts or things personified).

  • The relative which should be used only of beasts and inanimate objects.

  • Greek: phortion] is used only thrice in the New Testament outside of this passage.

  • Desert is to leave permanently and especially without regard for the person or thing deserted; it is used only in an unfavorable sense and usually implies a breach of duty.

  • While one of the various senses of cultivation is culture, culture should be used only of the development of the individual.

  • Some writers assert that desert is used only “of causes or persons but not of things.

  • Although the dictionaries give both a transitive and intransitive place to this verb in the signification of “behave,” it should properly be used only reflexively, as a transitive.

  • As a matter of fact, the tolerated elbow-on-table is used only on occasion and for a reason, and should neither be permitted to children nor practised in their presence.

  • Respectfully" is used only by a tradesman to a customer, an employee to an employer, or by an inferior, never by a person of equal position.

  • Attended Went to I trust I am not trespassing I hope I am not in the way (unless trespassing on private property is actually meant) Request (meaning ask) Used only in the third person in formal written invitations.

  • The Dative is used only after a preposition.

  • Produce is always collective, and is used only of raw products: as, the produce of the soil, of the flock.

  • Daresn't, if used at all, should be used only when "dares not" might be substituted.

  • Remainder is used only of things, and denotes a comparatively small part.

  • Nasty, Nice Nasty is a strong adjective, and should be used only in reference to what is offensively filthy, foul, or defiled.

  • States is too formal a word, and should be used only of some important assertion.

  • Patek is used only by natives, and by them only when addressing a person of royal blood.

  • Footnote 13: Sembilik is used only of the killing of an animal by a Muhammadan for consumption by Muhammadans.

  • Tĕman is used only in intercourse between natives of the upper class and of approximately equal rank.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "used only" 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:
    after supper; each section; gwine tell; head clerk; never speak; right gladly; sixth part; sought for; take her; used again; used against; used alone; used also; used always; used either; used especially; used every; used for; used for information dated; used frequently; used instead; used interchangeably; used medicinally; used sometimes; used tone; used when