Sentence examples for in current usage from inspiring English sources
Freedom fighter, once an honored designation, has been corrupted in current usage by insurgents or terrorists claiming the title.
In current usage, the adjective means "pulpy, mealy," an onomatopoeic alteration of the noun mash, a thick, boiled cereal.
But in current usage, the fog of war has come to mean "the confusion that attends the smoke of battle".
In current usage, which may not last long and is probably already fading, it most often means "have a sexual relationship".
In current usage, all three verbs refer to fixing a misbehaving machine or system by switching it off and on again.
Many of you assumed that it is not in current usage and indicated this accordingly, but I did not mark down those who failed to do this.
The term first appeared in its current usage in 1958.
In this review I argue that, in its current usage, WBD is a theoretically inconsistent criterion, and that its main premise, that a functioning brain is required for integrative life, is flawed.
In its current usage, the elided word gotcha is an attributive noun modifying journalism or politics or, alliteratively, gang.
In its current usage, the term has somewhat contradictory connotations: it may signal an opinion that a certain movie is (a) a genre film with minimal artistic ambitions or (b) a lively, energetic film uninhibited by the constraints imposed on more expensive projects and unburdened by the conventions of putatively "serious" independent film.
