Sentence examples for known uses from inspiring English sources

The known uses of promethium are due to its radioactivity.

Remember that, unfortunately, there are no known uses for Pykrete, and it remains a scientific curiosity to this day!

TEAL, as the project is known, uses collaborative work groups, hands-on experiments, computer simulations and remote controls for instantaneous quizzes and class-wide feedback sessions.

A dictionary may also provide quotations illustrating a word's use, and these may be dated to show the earliest known uses of the word in specified senses.

This means that it not only defined the words but also cited their earliest known uses, drawn from what the first volume of that first edition, published in 1888, called "all the great English writers of all ages".

The importance of plants for the development of new medicines was revealed in the report, which found that 57% of the 31,000 species with known uses were those from which drugs were derived.

This was the phrase's coinage, its first known use.

But there are lesser known use cases, too.

The first known use of this word was in 1539.

No critic I know uses this system today.

Not a single person I know uses them.