Sentence examples for usage error from inspiring English sources

Here's a usage error that's common but so subtle even our sharp-eyed readers haven't complained about it very often.

Preliminary results show that it is possible to double the performance and to increase the system reliability up to one order of magnitude by managing processor features such as cache memory usage, error correcting codes, and processor exception handlers.

In my experience, one writing problem dwarfs every piddling usage error you can imagine.

The main outcome variable is a final combined variable, defined as "having made some drug usage error and/or an inadequate adherence to treatment regimen".

We describe its features, advantages, disadvantages and usage errors.

The spelling checker now flags right spelling/wrong usage errors, as in, "I need to loose 10 pounds".

Teaching with The Times – Each week in the New York Times Magazine, published on Sundays, William Safire's "On Language" column explores common usage errors.

The availability of these equations avoids grounding the consequences assessment on diagrams and nomograms that otherwise would lead to interpretation and usage errors besides avoiding the automatic solution of the inverse problem.

Usage errors with Broselow tape and Mercy tapes were common.

Many of the commonest usage errors are the result of writers thinking logically when they should be mindlessly conforming to convention.

But if you're one of the millions who fear that usage errors make you look dumb, take heart: Our language trips up smart people too.