Sentence examples for the precise usage from inspiring English sources

The virginal and spinet are small varieties of harpsichord, but the precise usage of the terms differs.

Devices in the home and across industry could automatically pay for the energy they use by writing to the relevant blockchain, creating a transfer of value based on the precise usage of the device.

Assuming that semantic computational chemistry becomes widespread, the dictionaries will act as a catalyst to those communities to add more terms and to revise the precise usage of the concepts.

While keyword usage is important, it's also useful to note that the precise use of your keywords isn't as important as it used to be.

As we have often noted, in precise usage, the giver of the name is "eponymous," not the receiver.

As the stylebook notes, in precise usage, "aggravate" means to make worse, not anger or irritate.

In precise usage, the word in question, literally describing cattle droppings, is a vulgarity, not a profanity.

A wonderful image in Alessandra Stanley's overview of Russian TV (though in precise usage, the compound "variety and brio" should probably have taken a plural verb).

If it's the gerund "returning," then in precise usage "police" should be possessive: "the police's returning".

As the stylebook notes: irony, in precise usage, is a restrained form of sarcasm in which the intent of a phrase differs from its literal meaning, often for rhetorical effect (His brilliant plan nearly bankrupted the company).

We don't yet have precise usage statistics from the past few years, but the trend over the past decade shows I.U.D.s growing steadily more popular, and a 2015 University of Pennsylvania study documented a sixty-eight-per-cent drop in the average cost of an I.U.D. in the first year of Obamacare alone.