Sentence examples for usage not from inspiring English sources
Firstly, the job of a dictionary is to document words and usage, not dictate them.
"They considered that usage not in keeping with the original intent of the nursery.
Some dictionaries do label squaw as offensive, but that reflects its derogatory usage, not its derivation.
Total campus water usage (not including residence halls) has dropped by almost 20percentt since 1990.
But a poster at the December rally urging, "Lower water usage, not the Mill River," highlights two fundamental questions: how much water is really needed?
Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word — depression — is next on America's list to avoid.
In this specific usage, "transcendental" (not transcendent) is not contested by D&G but affirmed.
So overall usage has not increased.
Right now, even some card usage may not be enough.
But overall energy usage would not drop, he added.
