Sentence examples for common usage today from inspiring English sources

Many words and phrases that are in common usage today can trace their origins back to Shakespeare, so feel free to invent words and create new phrases.

The rival word that eventually evolved through Mr. Ambedkar's politics and triumphed into common usage today is "Dalit," which means "Crushed".

In common usage today coronation normally refers to the official investiture or enthronement of the monarch, whether or not an actual crown is bestowed.

We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were "teen-agers" — a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later — a new, recognizable franchise.

Teixeira maintains Ohlone is the common usage since 1960, which has been traced back to the Rancho Oljon on the Pescadero Creek.

Thus in articulating an interpretation, or set of interpretations of the term adequate to frame theoretical issues, we cannot simply describe how it is currently employed — we must assign it a more definite and coherent meaning than extant in common usage (Block 1995, 2002).

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

Chomsky says of E-languages that "all scientific approaches have simply abandoned these elements of what is called 'language' in common usage" (Chomsky 1988, 37); and "we can define E-language in one way or another or not at all, since the concept appears to play no role in the theory of language" (Chomsky 1986: 26).

Before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms.

The most common usage of spring cleaning refers to the yearly act of cleaning a house from top to bottom, which would take place in the first warm days of the year, typically in spring, hence the name".

However, the term seems to come into common usage sometime in 2008.