Sentence examples for usage coming from inspiring English sources

"Her storytelling ability and word usage (coming from me, who has written many bestsellers), is not at a very high level," he penned.

Like many other internet services, Pinterest is increasingly driven by mobile, with 80% of its usage coming from smartphones and tablets, and Android and iPhone its lead platforms for almost all new features.

The online ad network is seeing 43percentt of smartphone web usage coming through iPhones up to the 4S, plus another 3percentt from the iPhone 5 alone.

It scores Apple as leading all others with 55percentt of its power usage coming from coal-generated electricity.

Both the packaging usage and food consumption data are dated with packaging usage coming from 2005 and food consumption from 2000.

Next to seals as evidence of heraldic usage come the rolls of arms, which in England date from about 1250.

Moreover, the origin of the recent extension of this law to include records of all internet usage comes from this very same EU directive.

The term eczema, which formerly referred to the blistered, oozing state of inflamed skin, has by common usage come to have the same meaning as dermatitis.

"Modern English Usage" came out in the same year, 1926, that the BBC established an Advisory Committee on Spoken English, for the purpose of providing radio announcers with guidance on pronunciation and diction.

Another, even clearer example of an ill-considered usage came early in the new year from a reader: "Today's headline, 'Dozens killed in stampede at Shanghai celebration' (front page of the website, 1 January) has the strapline, 'At least 36 people die, including 25 women, in Shanghai waterfront new year crush'.

"Eats, Shoots & Leaves," which in the spectrum of such books is more playful than "The Elements of Style" and less prescriptive than The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, came out of a series Ms. Truss did on punctuation for Radio 4 some months ago.