Sentence examples for used of from inspiring English sources
"used of" is a correct phrase in written English
It is usually used to describe the past usage of something. For example, "This property was formerly used of the royal family."
Totally, 1131 valid samples (873 used of overpasses and 258 non-used of overpasses) were collected.
All we used of her office was a chair".
It was used of the fate of NHS whistleblowers.
These are not the words normally used of contemporary art.
The novel fails to surmount one major obstacle: the male pronoun used of the Gethenians.
Feisty; that term often used of Delaney and later, Andrea Dunbar.
Etymology-wise, the only clue is that it might have been "used of anything unusually large".
LC: I was happy that the song was being used, of course.
Tinder is still used, of course, as people know how to circumvent the Iranian firewall.
KaZaA, a product of Sharman Networks, is currently the most widely used of the services.
It is difficult to be sure how playfully the words were being used, of course.
