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
In stating the penalty of an offense, the legal word sentence is now more common than condemn; as, he was sentenced to imprisonment; but it is good usage to say, he was condemned to imprisonment.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
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