Sentence examples for came into present usage from inspiring English sources
His research showed that the word racism first came into present usage under the Nazis.
The word came into common usage after Paul Crutzen, a Dutch chemist and Nobel prize winner, used the term in 2000.
The expressions "wardrobe malfunction" and "nipplegate" came into common usage after that snafu, for which the Federal Communications Commission fined CBS Corp. $550,000.
"Selfie" came into popular usage only in 2002, about four years before Ms. Hilton and Ms. Spears posed for the pictures.
"Judeo-Christian civilization," a term popular among Republican evangelicals and others, came into common usage only after the Holocaust.
The term Dagwood sandwich came into popular usage to describe a towering, multilayered sandwich like the ones that Dagwood made to allay nocturnal hunger.
Camouflage, from the French word camoufler ("to disguise"), came into English usage during World War I when air warfare was introduced.
Throughout the middle ages and until roughly 1750 (when the word also came into common usage), self-murder was Satan's work: suicides would be retried, though dead, then hanged, drawn and quartered, their property given over to the state.
That began to change in the 1970's when operating systems came into wide usage, allowed computers to easily switch from running one application to another.
