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Example sentences for "being used"

  • They make quite as free in my cabin; but, being used to it, I do not care so much about them.

  • JELLY STOCK, Made from calf's feet, requires to be made the day previous to being used, requiring to be very hard to extract the fat.

  • The red dragon was one of the supporters of the Tudor kings, being used by Henry VII.

  • The colour, however, should be blazoned, the term "crined" being used.

  • Being used in clysters, it helps to dissolve the wind and pains in the belly; anointed also, it helps stitches and pains in the sides.

  • The Red Worts are more binding, and stops women’s courses, spitting of blood, or any other flux of blood or humours, being used as well outwardly as inwardly.

  • Being used any of the ways, it also helps a weak brain, or memory.

  • Inclined, or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating.

  • Frijoles are an important article of diet among Spanish- American peoples, being used as an ingredient of many dishes.

  • Incapable of being used or availed of; as, an impracticable road; an impracticable method.

  • Defn: The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural.

  • When one motor only is being used, the pitch is lowered until the propellers revolve at the speed which they would attain if both engines were in operation.

  • When the gun is loaded the bolt which holds the compressor back is withdrawn, either by the hand for manual firing, or by the action of the automatic closing of the breech when the arm is being used as a quick-firer.

  • The relation of the present English to the Anglo-Saxon is that of a modern language to an ancient one: the words modern and ancient being used in a defined and technical sense.

  • The thousand fires that spot the valley show that the torch is being used to complete the work of annihilation where repair is impossible and the smoke curls upward.

  • Houses have been thrown open to refugees, and every possible means is being used to protect the homeless.

  • At the First Presbyterian Church, which is being used as a morgue, seventeen bodies taken from the débris and river have been brought in.

  • Here we have rather a complication of terms, the word tzippor being used, as we shall presently see, to signify the sparrow in particular, or any little bird in general.

  • The great purpose of the Socialist Party is to seize the powers of government and thus prevent them from being used by the capitalists against the workers.

  • When he claimed that ‘Toxicide’ is being used in the Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, and that the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry is considering it seriously, etc.

  • Company, Montreal, Canada, in which the name of the Association’s Journal is being used.

  • The immediate surroundings of their towns and villages are most offensive, being used as the general receptacles for dead animals and all kinds of filth.

  • In English law this term has a more restricted meaning than domicile, being used to indicate the place of a man's residence or business, whether that be either temporary or permanent.

  • Simpson, the direct pressure of a metallic needle, either alone or assisted by a loop of wire, being used to close the vessel near the bleeding point.

  • On the other hand it cannot be said that any injurious materials are being used by brewers, the brewing industry being, broadly speaking, most efficiently supervised and controlled by scientifically trained men.

  • The liquid petrolatum has since become known under a variety of names, proprietary and otherwise, in addition to being used as a substitute or an adulterant for other, more costly, fats and oils.

  • This method is classic and authoritative, being used by many of the greatest masters, (by Holbein continually;) and it is much the best which the general student can adopt for expression of the action and muscular power of plants.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being used" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being acted; being again; being attacked; being dissolved; being entirely; being equivalent; being evil; being forced; being gone; being informed; being many; being moved; being much; being nearly; being now; being only; being ordained; being perceived; being reconciled; being related; being right; being treated; being vanquished; being wounded; square tower; stew them