Sentence examples for given up using from inspiring English sources

I've just about given up using it, because it runs like treacle.

Already in the last election it was clear that the national Republican Party had given up using the gays as a wedge; in coming years, politicians like Portman will actively court the gay and lesbian vote.

Mandy Chan, of Las Vegas, says she has pretty much given up using her laptop for online shopping — her 2-year-old commandeers it for "Barney" viewings — and instead shops on her phone.

A few users complained of insomnia and some reported that they'd given up using the drugs, even though they'd suffered no ill side-effects, because of a superstitious dread that they were "too good to be true" and that there "might be unknown side-effects in the future".

Since 1977, when the Transit Authority introduced the buff (essentially a giant chemical car wash that removes paint), many of New York's graf writers have given up using subway cars as their canvases and have turned to walls and storefront gates.

"A lot of soldiers who have lost limbs apparently have given up using these devices and gone back to a simple hook, which at least is reliable.

This was also supported in the present study and some parents gave up using strategies which worked initially but were not felt to be useful in the long-term.

Among the options now being considered is closing down the forces stationed in Germany, saving two brigades of roughly 15,000 personnel and giving up using tanks altogether – which allied forces like the Danes have found pretty useful in Afghanistan as they did in Bosnia.

I've got to give up using mascaro, Fred; life's too sad.

The morning I finally decided to give up using cash, the whole world changed.

Some time ago she gave up using the oven and confined her cooking to frying bacon.