Sentence examples for usage dating from inspiring English sources

Think of an "offer for sale" on the stock market, a usage dating from 1930, which the OED defines as "an invitation to the general public to purchase the stock of a company".

Arsenic trioxide (ATO) is well known for its toxicity, but it has also been used medicinally, with its first recorded usage dating back to 200 B.C. in traditional Chinese medicine [1].

In its earliest usage, dating back to Greco-Roman times, it referred to popular styles of art, architecture, and decor that simply distorted or hybridised human, plant, and animal figures into motifs and images that were exaggeratedly funny, ugly, or outright bizarre.

In its earliest usage, dating back to Greco-Roman times, it referred to popular styles of art, architecture, and decor that simply distorted or hybridized human, plant, and animal figures into motifs and images that were exaggeratedly funny, ugly, or outright bizarre.

For example, Salvia miltiorrhiza, also known as "Danshen", has recorded medical usage dating back to nearly two thousand years ago.

I should also report, in the light of my castigation last week of the use of the euphemism "sleep with", that the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Euphemisms says this usage dates back to the Anglo-Saxon period but was dropped toward the end of the middle ages.

This usage dates from at least the first half of the nineteenth century, and continues through to the present.

The earliest citation supporting that usage dates to 1919.

The models' tribal makeup seemed an idea whose usage date had long ago expired.

It consists of several smart energy measuring devices (SEMDs) that use a low-power radio protocol to dynamically build and connect to a radio network to transfer power usage date to a server.

Thousands of the state's junior water rights holders - those whose claims to water usage date back only as far as 1914 - have already had their water use curtailed this year.