Sentence examples for by common usage from inspiring English sources

When can a religious symbol or concept be said to have been "secularized" by common usage?

In Semitic languages words consist mostly of consonants, the pronunciation of the missing vowels being understood by common usage.

The term eczema, which formerly referred to the blistered, oozing state of inflamed skin, has by common usage come to have the same meaning as dermatitis.

This is so because in this case the definition would not declare logical consequences many instances of the relation consecrated by the common usage of logicians.

Most competent adults have little trouble understanding the process of making decisions based on the flip of a coin, as evidenced by its common usage to make decisions at the beginning of sporting events, such as which team will get the ball first in soccer matches.

This argument is supported by the common usage of single individuals as predator stimuli in previous studies of predator avoidance behavior in fishes [7], [9], [24].

The identification of these place names as pointing to religious significance is complicated by the aforementioned common usage of Þórr as a personal name element.

Apart from the fact that it is among the ugliest and most hateful of slang terms still in common usage by respected newspapers and magazines, I believe that the term "trash" is hardly a fair description of someone of Ms. Brockovich's accomplishments.

The nickname was in common usage by 1934, but it took another five years for it to be officially adopted.

Every word in that play was in common usage by the time Mary came along, and she was one of the first Quakers and they evolved as a response to the brutality of Puritanism in England and the American colonies first, then the surrounding countries and now, of course, they're worldwide.

The Chicago Manual of Style now recognizes "they" as a singular gender-neutral pronoun, as it has been in common usage by English speakers for a very long time.