Sentence examples for serious usage from inspiring English sources

The Japanese, no strangers to the marketing of cute, devised a smiley which could be read without turning one's head sideways: But the fundamental whimsy of the form belies the more serious usage of emoticons by adults now.

And these numbers aren't just for vanity, they drive serious usage.

Damman and Herman are hopeful that the app will see serious usage at the upcoming South by Southwest conference — which is, of course, a hub for social media sharing and oversharing.

Given that noir is, glaringly, the only mode of fiction that's appropriate to or capable of navigating intractable moral black spots like the Belfast of that period, this serious investigative usage might be looked on as almost an obligation of the genre, though it's rarely put to such a purpose.

If you're trying to sell advertising you need to convince the advertisers that you're serious about building usage".

Objective: Sialography is commonly used for the diagnosis of Sjögren's syndrome, although its invasive nature is often regarded as a serious drawback for routine usage.

The most serious disadvantage of the usage of plant oils in biolubricants is their poor thermo-oxidative stability [12].

Twitter is perpetually setting new records in terms of users and activity at an almost annoying pace, and it is said to be increasingly turning all that usage into serious revenue.

Large number of researchers in the field of environmental engineering have used Freundlich and Langmuir isotherm equations to represent equilibrium adsorption data for different kinds of adsorption systems, despite the fact that these equations have serious limitations on their usage (Langmuir 1916; Freundlich 1906).

Colonization with nosocomial pathogens, broad spectrum antibiotic usage and serious underlying disease were also contributory factors.

The presence of laccase and peroxidase along with tyrosinase imposes serious problems for commercial usage [ 31].