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Example sentences for "use"

Lexicographically close words:
usance; usar; usayn; usband; usbands; used; useful; usefull; usefullest; usefully
  1. The people in the house into which the telephone wires ran were very willing Mr. Brown should use the instrument, and he was soon talking to Mr. Ward back in Bellemere.

  2. His mother shook her head, and Bunny knew there was no use teasing any more.

  3. There is no use in my running my legs off to find him, for he is a long way from here.

  4. We also know that the final control of human welfare will not be governmental or military, and we shall some day learn that it will not be economic as we now prevailingly use the word.

  5. Every person should have the right and the privilege to a personal use of some part of the earth; and naturally the extent of his privilege must be determined by his use of it.

  6. The best kind of community interest attaches to the proper use and partitioning of the earth, a communism that is dissociated from propaganda and programs.

  7. I should like to see a movement looking toward the better utilization of the forests humanly, as we use school buildings and church buildings and public halls.

  8. As a man thinketh of his materials, so doth he profit in the use of them.

  9. Are we to make righteous use of the vast accumulation of knowledge of the planet?

  10. The ultimate good in the use of land is the development of the people; it may be better that more persons have contact with it than that it shall be executively more effectively administered.

  11. This will necessarily mean a better conception of property and of one's obligation in the use of it.

  12. But the resources of the earth must be available to man for his use and this necessarily means a modification of the original scenery.

  13. In the second stands the church, and another chapel, for the use of the hospital.

  14. Almost ever since the dissolution, this chapel has been converted to the use we find it at present, viz.

  15. City of London for the use of their poor, with lands of the value of 700 marks per annum, and bedding and furniture out of the Hospital of the Savoy, then suppressed.

  16. People did not use to build churches at a distance from town, unless for the service of convents or religious houses.

  17. Methuselah had long ago recovered the full use of his voice and was willing to prove the fact on any occasion.

  18. Of course, if it was the custom to haze new boys there was no use making a fuss about it, no use in playing baby.

  19. I don't believe there'd be much use in it," said Roy.

  20. No use in looking glum because you're put out at the plate.

  21. There's not much use waiting to get in front of their goal before shooting because they've got a fine defense and a dandy point.

  22. Seems to me that if he had the use of his limbs he would have reached the school before this, or at least have communicated with us.

  23. There wasn't much use trying to do anything with him in front of me.

  24. There was no use in heading toward the side of the field any longer; he must try to capture the necessary two yards.

  25. Doctor Emery says we can use what lumber there is in the landing and shed to build the rink with.

  26. There was no use in waking the whole crowd up unless there was some reason for it.

  27. Then, besides the fat, which would insure for a long time a store of stearine and glycerine, there were still the bones, for which a use could doubtless be found, although there were neither umbrellas nor stays used at Granite House.

  28. And indeed he proposed to make use of the property which the filaments of wool possess when subjected to a powerful pressure of mixing together, and of manufacturing by this simple process the material called felt.

  29. For ten years Gideon Spilett had been the reporter of the New York Herald, which he enriched by his letters and drawings, for he was as skilful in the use of the pencil as of the pen.

  30. As in so many other conjectures, the colonists had appealed to the logic of that simple good sense of which they had made use so often, and once more, thanks to their general knowledge, it had succeeded!

  31. As for him, he hoped no longer, but there was no use in arguing with Neb.

  32. As to that apparatus," replied Harding, "I do not quite see the use of it; and a more complete supply of clothes or more abundant ammunition would have been more valuable to us as well as to any other castaways!

  33. The sulphur spring not being of any actual use to the settlers, they proceeded towards the thick border of the forest, which began some hundred paces off.

  34. They had therefore to make use of the oars.

  35. This acid would later be of great use to the settlers, in the manufacturing of candles, tanning skins, etc.

  36. They approached the table specially devoted to the use of the wire.

  37. The voyage was continued, and as the Mercy appeared to flow not towards the shore, but rather towards Mount Franklin, it was decided that they should use the boat as long as there was enough water under its keel to float it.

  38. Ayrton had no doubt been murdered by these wretches, who possessed firearms, and at the first use that they had made of them, Herbert had fallen, wounded almost mortally.

  39. My friend," answered Harding, who always intentionally made use of this cordial appellation, "you must let us judge what it will be best to do in this respect.

  40. Economic data are of limited use because, although both entities issue figures, national-level statistics are limited.

  41. It had been two weeks since the world heard the first details of Formosa, and the details were so grim now that you couldn't use them at all.

  42. We'll go to fifty thousand dollars or so on a cleanup job, and you use that.

  43. Meanwhile, Witch's customers could use the preventive medicine of cleanliness to help them in their fight against disease, while the researchers of American medicine "seek to find you real protection.

  44. We have what we wanted; now let's use what we have.

  45. If we could use something like this to help overcome antiquated verbal prejudices and nationalistic emotional attachments.

  46. Whether the Citadels and many other things, which Princes make use of, are profitable or dammageable, 335 CHAP.

  47. Like disorders growe not of other, then of soche men as hath been, that use the exercise of warfare, for their proper arte.

  48. Here is an exceeding good disposition thereto: nor can there be, where there is a good disposition, a giant difficulty, provided that use be made of those orders, which I propounded for aim and direction to you.

  49. Did the Romaines permitte, that women might bee in their armies, or that there might be used these idell plaies, whiche thei use now a daies.

  50. Would you alwaies use this forme of order, when you would pitche a fielde.

  51. Thank you, Miss, I have a better use for it.

  52. He will learn to read the Bible at the Sunday school, and if he did know any more, I'm not sure he'd make a good use of it.

  53. The queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play.

  54. Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

  55. My lord, I will use them according to their desert.

  56. I shall be truly glad of any opportunity of testifying that I do not use a mere form of words in signing myself, Cordially yours.

  57. The Editors make use of this note, as it is the only one which Mr. Millais has been able to find for them, and they are glad to have the two names associated together).

  58. If the latter, my reason for wishing to settle the point immediately is that we may make another use of that Saturday night.

  59. I use the portfolio[46] for managerial papers still.

  60. Compiled for the use of the National Art Library, and the Schools of Art in the United Kingdom.

  61. If the former, here is the bill as it stood in London, with the addition, on the back, of a paragraph I would insert in Manchester, of which immediate use can be made.

  62. Selections (from the above) of 20 Plates, for the use of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

  63. If war be carried on in earnest, it must be one of annexation: we must make use of persons whom we cannot abandon to the mercy of the Burmese Government.

  64. I vouch for the truth of everything stated in the enclosed paper, and shall feel obliged if you will give it to the one most likely, in your opinion, to make a fair use of it.

  65. They seemed very much surprised and shocked, and asked how I could suppose that Mahommedans could use such a thing.

  66. We should have to make use of a vast number of suffering people, whom we could not abandon to the mercy of the old Government.

  67. These are the sources of his power, and he is not at all scrupulous in the use of it--it is not the fashion to be so in Oude.

  68. Our strong point is steam; and the discovery of a river which would enable us to use it in getting in strength to the rear or flank would be of immense advantage.

  69. The mulatto, who had made such good use of the moment when they were all occupied with the doctor, and was now joyously dividing the flood with sturdy arms, struck out towards the opposite shore.

  70. The only remaining horse was now applied to the use of the two young ladies, and Bertha, with Louisa mounted behind her, sat as firmly in the saddle as though she had been used to romp about on horseback from infancy.

  71. It was a scene of dreadful confusion, and in vain did they all call for the sailors to help them; none of them could have been of any use in the darkness, had they had leisure to attend to the unhappy passengers.

  72. The Priests therefore repair'd to a little Chapel, built in the open Fields, to be made use of on such like Occasions, there to deprecate the miserable Cause of this dreadful Visitation.

  73. However, it was a warning to me ever after, how I made use of English Freedom in a Spanish Territory.

  74. Here they got Possession of three Pieces of Cannon, with hardly any Opposition; and had Leisure to cast up a little Retrenchment, and to make use of the Guns they had taken to defend it.

  75. They fall in thousands, and they use the dead and wounded to bridge the rivers!

  76. Where was the use of alarming the country?

  77. Paul handed the page a well filled purse, telling him to keep a fourth part of the contents for himself, and to use the remainder to cover any expenses to which he might be put in sending messengers, etc.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "use" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ablation; abuse; account; advantage; affect; appliance; application; apply; appropriateness; assistance; assume; automatism; avail; availability; behalf; behave; behoof; benefit; bestow; bleed; burn; characteristic; claim; common; conduct; conformity; consumption; convenience; convention; convert; custom; demand; devote; drain; draw; duty; easement; effectiveness; efficiency; embrace; employ; employment; enjoy; enjoyment; equity; erosion; estate; etiquette; exercise; exert; exertion; expend; exploit; fall; familiarize; fashion; favoring; fitness; follow; function; goal; good; habit; habituate; handle; help; holding; impose; interest; inure; limitation; manage; manipulate; manner; manners; mark; milk; misuse; moment; monopolize; mores; need; object; objective; observance; office; operate; operation; part; pattern; peculiarity; percentage; play; ply; point; practicability; practicality; practice; praxis; prescription; prey; profit; prosecute; purpose; pursue; refer; relevance; right; ritual; role; serve; service; settlement; speak; stake; stereotype; steward; stroke; tackle; take; talk; tap; target; tie; title; touch; tradition; treasury; treat; trick; trust; turn; undertake; usage; use; usefulness; utility; utilize; value; wage; way; wear; wield; wont; work; worth


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    use embassy street address; use the; use them; used adjectively; used after; used again; used against; used alone; used always; used before; used every; used for various purposes; used frequently; used here; used instead; used interchangeably; used often; used principally; used sometimes; used tone; used when; used with; useful labor; useful purpose; useful purposes; useful work