Sentence examples for earlier uses from inspiring English sources

And it's no accident that these complexes and the earlier uses of the Thames don't co-exist.

The O.E.D. calls such a citation "the locus classicus for this modern sense though occasional earlier uses are recorded".

Everyone in Atlanta, from the third-generation native to the newcomer who lived in New Jersey six months earlier, uses it.

Rivals to Glidden and Ellwood sent out agents who pretended to have found, in odd corners of the country, earlier uses of barbed wire than Glidden was claiming.

"Redgauntlet" alone shows how Scott developed earlier uses of different forms epistolary, first-person, short-story, the journal and so on.

Breitenau, according to Documenta's artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, is a palimpsest of all its earlier uses and a psycho-geographical locus for her project.

But the earlier use lessens the impact of Lincoln's joke).

During his first campaign for governor, in 1994, he was asked to quantify his earlier use.

While splashing about in the archives, I found an earlier use of swing voter, equally apt.

He had earlier used "frightened" to describe the approach of his players.

Days earlier, using only his arms for mobility, he completed a marathon in Los Angeles, beating some competitors who jogged.