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Example sentences for "only used"

  • The future infinitive is only used as a representative of the indicative, and not as a substantive.

  • It is only used in a few words of English derivation.

  • In some phrases the genitive is only used.

  • The verb OUGHT is only used in the indicative [and subjunctive moods].

  • But the genitive is only used to express the measure of things in the plural number.

  • Oil of wine is reputed anodyne, but is only used in the preparation of other compounds.

  • The stronger liquor is only used diluted; and the dilute solution is now seldom prepared by the wholesale druggist.

  • It must not be understood that he read no other works but his Bible and Book of Martyrs, but that he only used those in composing his various treatises while in confinement.

  • The word is only used by religious writers, and never now.

  • Possess was formerly used as an active verb, but now is only used as a neuter verb; the meaning is 'to fill them with the certainty of the knowledge.

  • The extract of tonquin, like extract of orris and extract of vanilla, is never sold pure, but is only used in the manufacture of compound perfumes.

  • We need scarcely observe that the salt is only used to increase the bulk and weight of the product, in order to sell it cheap.

  • The civet is only used to give permanence to the perfume of the handkerchief.

  • Whether or not any particular species of insect was signified by the word "gnat" is very doubtful, and in all probability the word is only used to express the contrast between the smallest known insects and the largest known beasts.

  • There is, however, a little uncertainty about the word which is translated as butter, and as this word is only used in a very few passages, we will refer briefly to them.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "only 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:
    bearing date; great king; its height; many ships; only after; only apparent; only brother; only came; only come; only fancy; only found; only from; only hope; only know; only know she came and went; only laughed; only look; only once; only remained; only remember; only said; only sixteen; only thought; only thus; only twenty; only when