Sentence examples for early usage from inspiring English sources

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".

The late quotation anthologist James B. Simpson sent me an early usage in 1997 from Tony Banks, Britain's minister of sport at the time, "I was completely gobsmacked," which I dutifully posted in this space, little realizing the expression had such a future.

This means that bigger retailers using the service will effectively subsidize early usage by local businesses that sign up.

Philosophical personalism may or may not appropriate the theological suppositions with which the early usage of the term "person" is laden.

While the tech works both on desktop and mobile, to date, early usage of the service has seen some 80% of all orders placed via mobile devices.

Now the etymologist rushes back to his library and plunges into other databases and slang booklets for early usages and semantic development.

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

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.

The year before, while still at Cambridge, he had found what is known in lexicography as an important antedating -- the use of a word in a particular sense years before what was thought to have been the earliest usage.