Sentence examples for earlier usage from inspiring English sources

"I believe it is extremely likely that there is earlier usage than 1969," he said.

Earlier usage of the Sound is discussed, and the role of the boathouses considered in the context of change within a maritime landscape.

In earlier usage, the term referred not to morality itself but to the field of study, or branch of inquiry, that has morality as its subject matter.

Accordingly, Jesus Christ became the standard appellation for Jesus, somewhat contrary to the earlier usage of Christ Jesus, meaning "the Messiah Jesus".

However, further etymological digging by my researcher, Elizabeth Phillips, reveals earlier usage -- with a related meaning of "exhibit excited enthusiasm" -- by a cantankerous right-wing commentator with an abiding interest in the American language.

Others who share my unhealthy obsessions with both politics and language may know of an earlier usage of that now famous label and fighting word; at any rate, it has proved protean and mutable over these 55 years.

Evidence of even earlier usages, by Boris Johnson, Grandfather Cohen, or even Plato perhaps, will be joyfully received and may even get printed.

Hot on a Sunday deadline, I turned to the Google search engine for earlier usages and breathlessly informed readers that the phrase sure to become famous was "Army lingo from the Vietnam era".

This use of adequacy is in fact close to earlier usages of comprehensiveness (Section III.3).

Early usage: a writer named Henry de Knyghton used livid in 1258 to describe corpses.

An early usage is in the Asset Securitization Report of March 10 , 2008 in its headline "Tranche Warfare Boosts U.S. CDO Activity".