Sentence examples for word gained from inspiring English sources

Hardy's style epitomised cool before the word gained wide currency.

"Assassin" is, in fact, a medievalism; the word gained currency during the Crusades; it derives from "hashish".

The word gained that sense, says Fred R. Shapiro, who is editing The Yale Dictionary of Quotations, when the Supreme Court in the 1938 United States v. Carolene Products Co. referred in a footnote to religious, ethnic, national and racial groups as "discrete and insular minorities".

Regardless of which aspect of Newton's endeavors "Newtonian" might be applied to, the word gained its aura from the Principia.

That word gained its utility at the end of the seventeenth century -- the start of the epoch of nations formed in Europe by a supposed covenant or compact.

Marx rejected Comtean positivism but in attempting to develop a science of society nevertheless came to be recognised as a founder of sociology as the word gained wider meaning.

(Only in the plural, guts, does that word gain the meaning of "courage," or "intestinal fortitude").

The result is in the chart above, which shows the word gaining popularity from 1750 and peaking a little over a century ago around 1900.

Though scrupulously elegant, as always, Heaney's words gained nothing - quite the opposite - from their musical setting.

And Levangie summed up the consequences of writing her book "The Starter Wife" with these words: "Gained a miniseries, lost a husband". .

Every year several herds became antibody negative, and in other words gained BRSV and/or BoCV free status, but the incidence of number of herds becoming positive equalled out the number of herds clearing the infection.