Sentence examples for word is applied from inspiring English sources

The word is applied in most nations to candidates for commission who are students in national military schools.

When the word is applied to a man it typically refers to the misconduct of high-ranking officials or political indiscretion.

The nominalist position did not necessarily deny, however, that there must be some similarity between the particular things to which the general word is applied.

By extension, the word is applied to any oval shape or even to a decorative shield, whether scroll-like in appearance or not.

The novel, on the other hand, is not structurally dramatic in the sense in which the word is applied to stage or screen.

It is an emotive admission for the party, not least because the same word is applied to Nazi Germany.

Neither of them quarrels with the word being applied to their boss.

The word was applied to variety performances introduced, according to Livy, by the Etruscans.

Often the simplest and most useful test is: would this word be applied to a straight, white man?

The word was applied to character by Tom Wolfe a decade before in his book about astronauts, "The Right Stuff".

People from the minority in Northern Ireland always felt there was an element of coercion when the "British" word was applied to them.