Sentence examples for modern use from inspiring English sources

This involves digging deep into political traditions, rescuing neglected currents and putting them to modern use.

Oil obtained from the seed is the chief modern use of the plant.

The invention of the blasting cap inaugurated the modern use of high explosives.

So a Victorian would have been baffled by the modern use of the term.

While the trees are traditionally associated with Christian symbolism, their modern use is largely secular.

In modern use, the word is limited to the by-product of the sugarcane mill.

(The character is the basis for the modern use of the word mentor).

How can it be adapted for modern use — aside from demolition and cookie-cutter development?

Balneological use dates back centuries, but the first modern use started in 1937.

Modern-use chemicals such as alachlor, trans-nonachlor, endosulfan, and atrazine also competed with [3H]17 beta-estradiol for binding to the aER.

Nevertheless, he was deeply committed to restoring vitality to as much of tradition as was possible, and to "re-formatting" it for modern use.