Sentence examples for by a usage it from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, when there's some discrepancy about grammatical correctness, and when there are some readers who are uncomfortable with or offended by a usage, "it sounds old-fashioned/awkward/silly/just wrong" is the best justification for a style ruling.

When Facebook announced in its second-quarter earnings report that 41percentt of its advertising revenue was generated by mobile usage, it was a watershed moment: The social company proved that it could monetize its increasingly on-the-go user base.

Nonetheless, I will take Facebook's word for it that many users are seeing an improvement as evidenced by its usage stats.

Wilson Follett endorsed it in his 1966 Modern American Usage, and it was then picked up by a number of other usage writers, including Jacques Barzun and John Simon.

Negative control immunostainings were performed by omission of the primary antibody, by usage of a non-immune serum and by usage of isotype-matching control immunoglobulins.

Now Riffsy is spurring a surge in gif usage by making it fast and easy to share gifs everywhere on mobile.

Another divided demand for long-distance telephone service into business and residential customers and then subdivided it by usage level.

The names by which we know an element has either been decided by long usage or chosen by its discoverer.

Waste heat generated by energy usage is a secondary contributor.

It made a huge difference to their gas usage - cutting it by a whopping 48%.

It notes a secondary sense, "enormous size or extent," but cautions, "in modern use, considered a loose usage by some".