Sentence examples for the usual modes from inspiring English sources

Ms. Gayle is persuasive as the self-absorbed teenager who jumps between the usual modes of feeling, resentment and boredom.

"One can speculate that at this delicate historical/religious time, it was thought that the usual modes for the transformation of the king were not sufficient, and so the priest-embalmers prepared the body in such a way so as to literally emphasize the divinity of the king and his identification with Osiris," Ikram writes.

The main source of infection is usually contaminated food or water (9 – 13 ), while the usual mode of transmission is direct person-to-person contact with saliva, vomit, or aerosols.

Distance and time to care from patient's usual residence to the PICU will be calculated using appropriate measures for the usual mode of transport (network analysis for locations usually serviced by road ambulance and the combination of both road network analysis and Euclidean distance for areas usually served by fixed-wing or helicopter).

The usual mode is wry, crackling nostalgia (Mencken and Dreiser) or institutional accounting (Arthur Gelb, Max Frankel).

This, apparently, is the usual mode of family play, and father and daughter, satisfied, return to their log cabin.

Walking on the ground is the usual mode of feeding for the common hoopoe (Upupa), the ground rollers, and for a few hornbills.

Walking or crawling is the usual mode of locomotion, and the familiar sidelong gait in the common shore crab is characteristic of most members of the group.

On the Web, Beliefnet's editors discovered, the usual mode of magazine courtship was reversed: they could call on the readers every day, rather than wait for the readers to pick them up on a street-corner newsstand.

"There is a radical error, I think, in the usual mode of constructing a story," Poe writes in "The Philosophy of Composition," a great, mad essay from which young scribblers may still profit.

In the era when steamships were the usual mode of travel and only ten days were allowed, it was twice the fate of the late William Cardinal O'Connell, of Boston, to arrive at a conclave after the election was over-in 1914, and in 1922.