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
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
We have never seen the latter expression before, and though it may possibly be a modernism in good usage, it was certainly unknown in the days when we attempted to acquire our education.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
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