Sentence examples for modern usage from inspiring English sources

Modern usage has further extended the term.

In modern usage, this moment, this point, lasts years.

Petticoat, in modern usage, an underskirt worn by women.

In modern usage the term guaranty has largely superseded suretyship.

To help reduce ambiguity, modern usage attaches specific words to specific functions.

Dictionaries and thesauri and encyclopedias and books on modern usage are where you look up everything.

Consult a modern usage guide or a dictionary with usage notes.

Not all modern usage writers take doctrinaire views of grammar, whatever their politics.

Generally speaking, "selling your soul" in modern usage denotes submission to dull routine or lucrative scam.

But it added, "Also acceptable is the modern usage: it's hoped, we hope".

They meant fantastic as in unreal, not in the modern usage of, you know, like, awesome.