good usage
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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I’ve racked my brain to give you a good usage scenario for Bluetooth 5, but it doesn’t exist yet.
From The Verge • Jun. 20, 2017
It will be a smaller market than using gas to fire power plants, “but it’s a good usage of the gas,” he said.
From BusinessWeek • Dec. 7, 2011
As by the elms that line its street, the hills that watch its roofs, Lyme, Conn., is sentineled by artistic good usage, fortressed by aesthetic tradition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet such pointers are overwhelmed by humorless pedagogy, prolixity, questionable advice, and an embarrassing number of sins against good usage and grammar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes," answered Mr Barlow; "I believe, as I have before told you, there is no animal that may not be rendered mild and inoffensive by good usage.
From The History of Sandford and Merton by Day, Thomas
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