Sentence examples for earliest uses from inspiring English sources

It heralds a new generation of renewable fuels and chemicals, based on one of humankind's earliest uses of biotechnology.

Its earliest uses were for agriculture, when treated sewage was spread on fields near cities like San Antonio and Amarillo.

Two of the earliest uses of metallic sodium were in the manufacture of sodium cyanide and sodium peroxide.

"We have been a shopping," declares the heroine of Fanny Burney's 1778 novel Evelina in one of the earliest uses of that last word.

She searched for the earliest uses of the phrase, finally landing on Griswold's reference, a discovery Taylor-Blake reported to the listserv of the American Dialect Society.

One of the earliest uses of ceramic ferrites was as a channel filter in telephony, although solid-state filters and fibre optics are making this application obsolete.

The earliest use that my researcher, Elizabeth Phillips, can find is the 1827 play "Sylvia," by George Darley.

Bush's earliest use of the executive privilege came in his very first year of presidency.

The earliest use of the term "back story" is recorded by the OED as recently as 1982.

Its earliest use was as personal decoration.

The earliest use of bromine was in medicines.