Sentence examples for more common usage from inspiring English sources

A related phrase, "gun rights," has also come into more common usage.

So as the 1970s progressed, the term "alternative" came into more common usage.

In an online Q. & A. on the paper's Web site in 2010, Shortz explained that while using the the word "spaz" "for a person who is actually spastic … would be cruel," he had no problem putting it in the puzzle because the more common usage is figurative, and "this is colorful vocabulary that most people would consider inoffensive".

But its more common usage relates to the qualities people have gleaned from Machiavelli's The Prince.

This is stricter than the more common usage where any vertebrate that spends time at sea at all is included.

(A note about the literature: 'theoretical term', prior to the 1980s, was standardly used to denote terms for unobservables, but will be used here to refer to any scientific term, which is now the more common usage).

This paper, though, follows a more common, looser usage of the terms.

In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.

The REFLECT statement proposes new terminology, more consistent with common usage in livestock production, to describe study subjects.

The shorter term, "pacifism," has become more common in English usage during the 20th Century to describe a variety of views that are critical of war.

MDMA and ecstasy use were both generally on the up across Europe, while amphetamine use was generally stable, with chronic usage more common in northern European countries.