Sentence examples for old usage from inspiring English sources

The old usage still lingers on in the less-expert literature.

But Geordie Greig (pronounced gregg), the editor of The Tatler magazine and a keen student of Britain's upper classes, being a member himself, said he was sorry to see the old usage go.

When other philosophers claim that they still have something substantive and distinctive to say about human nature, their work is customarily categorized as "philosophical anthropology," thus avoiding the confusion that the old usage might cause.

"Strangelove" is an enraging struggle between reason and madness, between three-dimensional characters and men devoted, in the old usage, to "humors" — a fixed obsession that limits their responses, a comic device that goes back to Ben Jonson's plays, or earlier.

And this is an old usage indeed.

Thus, a passage might be historically magnetized by just one or two charged old usages.

But how intolerant he is of the old usages and politenesses of society".

Some of the old usages and politenesses of society that Eliot abjured were precisely the Newtonian conceptions of space and time, which, a decade or so after Woolf's essay was published he would meditatively subvert in Burnt Norton.

The older usage of the term is inextricably bound up with meaning: information is something you know that carries a meaning.

The use of the word 'probable' in ordinary language still resembles this older usage to some extent (Franklin 2001, 126; Hacking 2006, 18).

Gram is also sometimes spelled gramme in English-speaking countries other than the United States, though this older usage is declining.