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
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
But the function of this book is not that of a guide to good usage or a & dictionary, though it is a necessary complement to both.
From Time Magazine Archive
Loose is the original word, and unloose is a corruption; both words, however, are now sanctioned by good usage, and may be indiscriminately employed, without offence against propriety.
From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous
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