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Example sentences for "largely employed"

  • The kind termed gum arabic, so largely employed in the arts, is a very pure variety of this substance.

  • Not until the close of the l8th century or the beginning of the 19th did the more profuse fashion of enamelled decoration come to be largely employed.

  • The soft silk known as habutaye is a favourite ground for such work, but silk crape also is largely employed.

  • The drug is largely employed in cases of Bright's disease and dropsy from any cause, being especially useful when the liver shares in the general venous congestion.

  • In pharmacy it is largely employed in the preparations of tinctures alkaloids, spirits, &c.

  • It is seldom employed in the metallic state, from the great difficulty of reducing its ores, but its oxide (black oxide) is largely employed in the arts.

  • The bran of wheat, diffused through hot water, is largely employed by the calico-printers to remove the colouring matter from those parts of their goods which are not mordanted.

  • The crude carbonate is largely employed in the manufacture of soap, glass, &c.

  • It is largely employed as a manure, in the preparation of nitric acid, and, recently, in the manufacture of fireworks, on account of the comparative slowness with which it burns.

  • The fruit is highly fragrant and exceedingly acid, and for these reasons it is largely employed to flavor other fruits.

  • Tin, which is simply thin sheet iron coated with tin by dipping several times into vats of the melted metal, is largely employed in the manufacture of cooking utensils.

  • The sour lemon is highly valued for its antiscorbutic properties, and is largely employed as a flavoring ingredient in culinary preparations, and in making a popular refreshing beverage.

  • Copper amalgamates with most of the metals, and its subsidiary alloys are very largely employed in the arts and manufactures of every kind.

  • In hardness it lies between copper and gold; and a small addition of the former substance considerably increases this quality, in which state it is largely employed in the arts.

  • It is largely employed in alloying both gold and silver for the manufacture of jewellery and other articles.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abundant evidence; agricultural chemicals; chemical processes; each hole; fell asleep; foolish thing; grassy plain; inspire confidence; just back; largely because; largely composed; largely developed; largely employed; largely grown; largely self; largely subsistence; largely used; public interest; sent him; standing stones; three gallons; tolerably well; ventral surface; while that; white silk; whole people