Sentence examples for older usage from inspiring English sources

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.

The modern slang form, which is distinguished from the older usage by being written only in hiragana, katakana (オタク or, less frequently, ヲタク) or rarely in rōmaji, first appeared in public discourse in the 1980s, through the work of humorist and essayist Akio Nakamori.

Confusingly the older usage still occurs, but often inappropriately modified to include Mollicutes.

The writing, solid and speedy in the modern manner, is subtly tinged with older usages.

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.