Sentence examples for usage in the summer from inspiring English sources

We talk about Peak Usage in the summer and the winter.

This is especially key with the San Onofre nuclear power plant, which has been offline for months due to problems with corroded pipes, continuing to be offline during peak energy usage in the summer and may be offline into next year.

The phrase was picked up in the 80's and increased in usage in the next decade.

The term translational medicine was introduced in the 1990s but only gained wide usage in the early 2000s.

"I've definitely noticed an increased usage in the last five years," Ms. Bock said, "and it's reached this exponential point.

Bowie had always appreciated the interplay between pop music and technology, but the explosion of web usage in the mid-1990s offentirelyirely new communication possibilities.

It passed into theatrical usage in the early 18th century to describe a device employed by professional actors to circumvent the dramatic monopoly held by the Comédie-Française.

After falling away from the rampant rates of usage in the 1970s, the drug in recent years has made a stealthy comeback, and not just in large cities like New York but in remoter areas too.

Before that, the O.E.D., in its exhaustive history of do, cites Charles Dickens and other 19th-century writers using the phrase "to do the [adjective like "grand" or "lazy"] thing"; then came a burst of usage in the 1990s of the "I don't do" phrasal template followed by the likes of "nuance" or "small talk" or "ticktock".

Only a pedant would point out that "turd" acquired its pejorative meaning much later, in the 13th century, and found its ultimate usage in the 1970s when it was applied to the Leyland Princess car, christened memorably by its detractors "the flying turd".

But just looking at the graphs you can see pretty stagnant usage in the last two quarters of 2016.