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Example sentences for "using"

Lexicographically close words:
useth; usher; ushered; ushering; ushers; usit; usnea; uso; usquam; usque
  1. I will appeal to yourself," answered she, "whether this be not using me too much like a child, and whether I can possibly help being a little offended at it?

  2. However, by treating my servants with a dignified disregard, and by dint of using my eyes while at table, I have committed no great solecism so far, I trust, and am rapidly gaining in knowledge and confidence.

  3. Saying which, his Lordship, tearing open the packages, and using his fingers as forks, began to devour the edibles with huge appetite.

  4. Or are these weapons, and this mode of using them, the teaching of the traitor Moor?

  5. I believe there are people who (in a moral sense), if they have a crooked stick, fancy that by using it as if it were straight, it will become straight.

  6. I stepped, in a precious condition, into the cold bath, Bardon using more water on my head and shoulders than usual, more rubbing and spunging, and afterwards more vigorous dry rubbing.

  7. Why have we been using words which affirm him dead in our religious speech, and feel startled at finding them proved true in another sphere of inquiry?

  8. But to me all this is extremely unsatisfactory: and unsatisfactory in a much farther sense than merely that it is using terms in a non-natural sense.

  9. She was herself rather a pathetic little soul, dingily pretty, using the patois of her kind, and always at the fag end of her classes.

  10. She had her own thoughts, and she was using all her power of self-control to conceal her agitation.

  11. My back is nearly broke from digging and using the pick.

  12. We thought at first that the Spaniards were using explosive bullets, but we found they were merely brass-covered bullets.

  13. Captain Capron stood behind his men, revolver in hand, using it whenever a Spaniard exposed himself.

  14. The richness of the sugar lands may be judged from this item in the report: "Three hogsheads of sugar is an average yield per acre, without using fertilizers of any kind.

  15. Their own envoys had asked him to hold a council, and the men who set aside the decisions of Nicæa by using the services of heretics like Secundus, Pistus and Carpones could hardly claim finality for their own doings at Tyre.

  16. Once master of the world, Julian could see its needs without using the eyes of the Asiatic camarilla.

  17. This is one of the most necessary items to bear in mind in using the sulphide process.

  18. By using the side, bringing the cloth within a quarter of an inch of the paper, the lines are more evident, which is not so objectionable for very large work.

  19. By using it a very little during the first part of the exposure the tint will be overcome, while objects projecting above the horizon will be sufficiently printed.

  20. This can be overcome by using a weaker light in enlarging.

  21. The greatest difficulty in developing bromide paper is to get rich black tones when desired, but this can be completely overcome by using entirely fresh developer from time to time, and never over-working the developer, whatever it may be.

  22. Place the bromide paper on the screen, using the thumb-tacks as a guide to the correct position in this.

  23. I place this on the mount and then stretch over it smoothly a damp handkerchief or piece of very thin rubber cloth, rubbing the print down with my hands, seldom using the squeegee and then very lightly.

  24. Now using the sheet of paper as a guide, place on the edges of the bromide paper two little pencil marks to show how far we shall shade the lower portion of the paper.

  25. As will be seen by this time, there are many wrinkles about using bromide paper, and it will be found that new ones appear at every seance in the enlarging room.

  26. In using the daylight apparatus, which we will now consider, the negative is placed in the holder opposite the center of the ground-glass, upside down and facing into the work room.

  27. Bibe," he said, in a tone of command, using medical Latin in preference to English.

  28. Worst of all was her persecution when she found him using gold-leaf.

  29. Richard laid the tool he was using quietly aside, and approached her deliberately.

  30. I was using a very sharp knife, and it went into my hand.

  31. Then having locked it, she stuffed a number of small pieces of paper into the lock, using a crochet-needle to get them well among the wards.

  32. One day when he happened to be using the polishing-iron, Vixen, as her brothers called her, came in, and began to play with the paste.

  33. Much variety may be introduced by using different curves; joining parabolas with cycloids, etc.

  34. It may possibly be suggested that this method of using plates to determine the obliquity of the teeth is a homely method, giving some trouble in the execution, and leaving a certain degree of roughness in that execution.

  35. So that a flat cutter placed at any angle, is parallel to the curve at one place only; whence the propriety of using a cutter of the kind represented in this figure.

  36. The present method of so doing, consists in using a very large sail, (A B) both to receive the impulse of the wind, and to raise the water.

  37. Judge Cole was too good a lawyer to go into court with a suit upon such a demand, and he conceived the idea of using the criminal processes of the law against Mr. Kidd for the purpose of extorting from him this demand of the whisky pool.

  38. The result was that this grand jury brought in an indictment only against my client as defaulter as treasurer of the Agricultural College, and for unlawfully using and converting to his own use the funds of that institution.

  39. I still continued my studies of the law, using very frequently a book known there as Swan's Treatise, compiled for the benefit of the justices of the peace of the state by Judge Swan, of Ohio.

  40. She was using the curb with a force that was almost brutal, as many a Pridmore and many a Colthurst had used it before her.

  41. The effect was heightened by a quaintness of style which seemed to give the impression of a foreigner of great perception using a tongue with which he was unfamiliar.

  42. The Sailor was a very clumsy craftsman using the queerest of tools, but oddly enough he had a remarkable faculty of concentration.

  43. So they can; and men can be hanged for slitting them," returned Sir Lewis, and thereafter resumed and elaborated his first argument, using now such forceful logic and obvious sincerity that Sir Walter was convinced.

  44. The fellow had been using dyes, the supply of which had been cut short by his imprisonment.

  45. And you wanted to replace it for what reason--did Lee Oswald desire to use it or were you using it or what were the circumstances?

  46. Were you aware during this fall period that he was employing a post office box, he had rented a post office box and was using it to receive communications?

  47. Yes; I think I knew even in his offhanded reference to comments on those that he was using Marxian terminology.

  48. I was using the typewriter in preparation for teaching Russian to one student.

  49. You are using as an example the vocabulary of a native Russian citizen of the age of 8 to 10 years old?

  50. In that direction, that is, of seeing that the light was off when you weren't using the garage?

  51. Because he was using again this word, ideinyi.

  52. I am using this as an occupational force--I'll put it this way.

  53. That was as far as my thinking went on the subject but at one time or another those various thoughts would occur before I got to using the tools myself.

  54. And do you recall emphasizing in that letter that the study of Russian on your part was an intellectual decision, using those very words--intellectual decision?

  55. I'll put it this way--she said he was using his guns for hunting.

  56. First, I have thought about someday teaching a course in high school on the subject of newspaper and magazine accuracy, using this particular story of the assassination of President Kennedy as source material.

  57. Yugoslav workers, who are very good and very inexpensive, to do some drilling in Arabic countries, and using American equipment.

  58. Such an action is not the result of blind instinct, but of a thinking mind: and it is wonderful to see an insect so differently constructed using a mental process similar to that of man.

  59. Their progression was not by placing one foot before the other, but by simultaneously using both, as in jumping.

  60. The king-bird builds a nest altogether admirable, using various soft cotton and woollen substances, and sparing neither time nor material to make it substantial and warm.

  61. I think that it is fair, at least, to put the case before you as it looks to me, using the Bible itself as my chief witness.

  62. The following additional notes may be of service in using these: 1.

  63. By flavoring with different flavoring and using different colorings you may have a variety in these drop candies.

  64. When using oil of peppermint or oil of cinnamon for flavoring remember it is very strong and use only a few drops, while from a half teaspoonful to a tablespoonful of extract may be used, according to the strength of flavoring desired.

  65. To each cupful of nut meats have one-half cupful of chopped fruit, using dates, figs, raisins or candied cherries.

  66. Weigh the cherries, and to each pound of the fruit add two pounds of sugar, using only the best granulated for this purpose.

  67. By using different flavoring extracts one may have a great variety in candy.

  68. Chop up some almonds fine and mix with some fondant, using about a half cupful of nut meats to each cupful of fondant, flavor with almond, and pour into a square or oblong box lined with paraffine paper.

  69. By using some chocolate fondant, some maple fondant and some white fondant you can have these bonbons in seven colors.

  70. Other spice bonbons can be made by using a few drops of the oil of allspice, cloves or nutmeg in flavoring the fondant.

  71. Cut into small pieces, using shears or sharp knife, and place on buttered plate or paraffine paper.

  72. Flavor with orange extract, using about a teaspoonful.

  73. Hundreds of varieties of bonbons can be made by using different flavorings and different combinations of one kind with another.

  74. Mix to a dough with one-third cup of milk, using only enough to make the dough so that it will roll out easily.

  75. Make a syrup using a pound of sugar to each pound of nuts.

  76. And yet in its rapacity without eyes, it must ever be using the criminal avarice of officials to pick the stones and mortar from the honest foundations of the state!

  77. You keep using the term 'machine,'" said I coldly.

  78. The Indians had cut long poles, and as they drifted down one stood at each corner of the raft, using their poles occasionally as paddles to keep it straight.

  79. Wilcox is particularly strong on the manner in which the lad contrived to kindle a fire by using his watch-glass filled with water as a burning-glass.

  80. The meat was cut up into three huge portions, and using biscuits as plates they speedily set to work upon it.

  81. Everyone knows something of boxing, that is, of the proper way of using the fists, and it has come to be the national way of fighting among the common people and among boys of all classes.

  82. We might manage the tinder easily enough,” Stephen said, “by using rotten wood; but tinder is of no use without steel.

  83. Both sides had refrained from using the neuro-pistols for fear that the beams, which readily penetrated walls at short range, might injure the princess.

  84. Someone, using a massive plate of metal as a partial shield against the neuro-pistols, was creating havoc.

  85. He reproved many without using a hard expression.

  86. He knew that he could allow others to give the laws an interpretation which secured him, without being himself taxed with using hard measures.

  87. I tell you I can't halt," replied Tom, using his paddle vigorously, as though he was trying to urge the bateau to the shore.

  88. Tom, gesticulating with all his might, and using all his ingenuity to invent signs that would convey to the militiaman the idea that he was in imminent danger.

  89. He could only trust to Providence for guidance, and, using his best judgment in choosing the direction, he entered upon the difficult task of finding his way out of the woods.


  90. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "using" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ablation; consumption; decrease; decrement; depletion; depreciation; dissipation; drain; employment; erosion; evaporation; exhaustion; expenditure; handling; leakage; management; manipulation; mean; operation; shrinkage; waste; working


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    using countries; using the; using them; using tobacco