Sentence examples for usage a from inspiring English sources

This account means free banking, interest payments, unlimited cheque usage, a prepaid card and other benefits.

Early usage: a writer named Henry de Knyghton used livid in 1258 to describe corpses.

In common usage a hearing also refers to any formal proceeding before a court.

In mid-nineteenth-century usage, a disease was called "epidemic" if it was not thought to be "contagious".

In naval usage a division is a group of ships, usually four, forming part of a squadron or task force.

In strict usage, a fen denotes an area in which the soil is organic (peaty) and alkaline rather than acid.

The biggest charges hit internet usage: a megabyte of data downloaded abroad will set you back €0.20, around 16p.

In popular usage, a theory is a speculation, not necessarily supported by evidence, and only in that sense is intelligent design a theory.

I pay a flat minimum fee for the pleasure of keeping in touch with friends that allows me 10 minutes of usage a day.

Tim established close relations with University College London and its Survey of English Usage, a research unit studying spoken and written English, established in 1959 with Longman funding.

Fitzgerald found several nearly unique instances of language usage — a preference for pompous vocabulary such as "dubiety," "redoubt," and other ponderous phrasings.