They were extensively used in Roman times by lawyers to avoid repetition of technical terms and formulas.
Barbiturates were extensively used as "sleeping pills" throughout the first half of the 20th century.
At one time punched-card and paper-tape readers were extensively used for inputting, but these have now been supplanted by more efficient devices.
Flowers were extensively used in most Italian gardens, but because of the shortness of their season they could not be the principal feature.
I'm not qualified to say whether the recent upheavals in the Middle East, particularly in Egypt, owed much to social networking tools, but clearly they were extensively used.
During the Korean War jet fighters, notably, the U.S. F-86 and the Soviet MiG-15, were extensively used.
Cast iron beams were extensively used in many 19th century structures, especially in fireproof flooring systems (such as jack arch).
However, although Ty-1 cultivars were extensively used in Mediterranean countries, TYLCV-IS76 was not reported outside Morocco.
They were extensively used in polyphonic (many-voiced) music and were built in alto, tenor, and bass sizes, the treble part being supplied by the cornett a wooden, lip-vibrated instrument with finger holes.
Trochaic metres were extensively used in ancient Greek and Latin tragedy and comedy in a form, particularly favoured by Plautus and Terence, called trochaic catalectic tetrameter.
