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Example sentences for "uses"

Lexicographically close words:
uselessly; uselessness; usen; user; users; usest; useter; useth; usher; ushered
  1. Although this animal is subtle and uses every art to conquer others, he does not seem to have the least instinct for his own preservation.

  2. The dog seems to owe its vociferous nature to man, who, of all beings, uses his tongue the most.

  3. The separate uses of the three component structures, &c.

  4. When the mind, however, is directed to the observation of the molars or double teeth, the properties and uses of all become apparent.

  5. The uses of the ivory, enamel, and crusta petrosa &c.

  6. The uses of the ivory, enamel, and crusta petrosa must be now noticed.

  7. Huge as the instrument looks, it requires delicacy in the hand which uses it.

  8. They know the terrible uses to which appeals to the fancy and the emotions have been applied, and are still applied to enslave the intellects, the consciences, the very bodies of men and women.

  9. And for the best perhaps it did end, in the sense in which the resigned Christian uses these pious words; but this, one fears, was not the sense intended by the dying man.

  10. The proper sort of a yardstick for all uses has inch-marks.

  11. But suppose a man paints a great picture, for which he recieves a great price, and thereafter uses the fame he has won as speculating capital to enrich himself,--I beg the pardon of every artist for setting up the hideous hypothesis!

  12. He's a wonderful flyer; uses his head and knows every trick in the game.

  13. You've seen those pictures of how the navy uses a catapult to launch its fighting planes from the decks of battleships?

  14. There were only a few uses to which rubber waste containing fibrous material could be put when ground up and devulcanized without the removal of the fiber.

  15. Bronze or any metal which can be moulded, hammered and sharpened of course gives a nation vast superiority over one which uses stone only; and the value of iron and steel for the same purposes I need not dwell upon.

  16. Meanwhile the ice lowered by the ebb tide has formed a restricted crust against which the flood tide, backed up by the weight of the disturbed masses, uses its energy as a man uses his shoulder to lift a load.

  17. As their contents grew, new structures have been added, over the gardens and on the street behind, all done in good taste, all suggesting the uses for which they are meant.

  18. Each male animal uses his weapons in his own peculiar fashion.

  19. Some naturalists believe that the voice is thus strengthened, but various other uses have been assigned to this extraordinary structure.

  20. Gorky lives the lives of his heroes; he seems to sink himself into them, and, at the same time, he idealizes them, and often uses them as his spokesmen.

  21. He uses a large canvas for his studies of inanimate nature, as well as of individuals in particular and the masses in general.

  22. I was especially attracted by the account of his mechanical education and of its uses to him in after years, during and after the American Revolution, when he became Statesman, Ambassador, and Philosopher.

  23. In doing so, he uses language which partakes more of the character of a wail than of a simple statement of facts.

  24. Ryerson uses this language:-- The great body of the inhabitants of this province will not likely again petition on the question of the clergy reserves and a church establishment in this province.

  25. When the Holy Spirit uses a frog to represent certain doctrines or teachings, we may be sure that the application will fit well.

  26. He uses a play upon words, not apparent in the English translation.

  27. Satan alone is the wilful, intelligent plotter and schemer who uses a superhuman intelligence and, so far as permitted, superhuman powers, in opposing righteousness and truth and those who are of the Truth.

  28. The thought is that of public purchase; and all the other uses of this word agorazo, throughout the New Testament, emphatically support a most commercial signification.

  29. This Society never solicits donations, but it uses voluntary contributions as wisely and economically as possible in the propagation of Christian knowledge along the lines presented in Scripture Studies.

  30. As Mrs. Strait uses moralism for a defense, so Mr. Knowles uses his emphasis on the content of the Bible as a way of protecting himself from the deeper and more personal challenges of life.

  31. And does not the hammer exist as hammer in relation to the hand that uses it and the object it pounds?

  32. Greek: Ilios], and always uses this word as a feminine.

  33. It is true that he uses hypotheses and works the imagination.

  34. To give him what he actually needs and see that he uses it for a definite purpose is the present problem of the educator.

  35. The lust of fire propels him, and he uses his art to secure wealth.

  36. They are the friend of man when he uses them in moderation as Finsen did in the famous blue light treatment.

  37. None of the muscles or tendons of the body are exempt from liability to this lesion, though naturally from their uses and the exposure of their situation the extremities are more liable than other regions to become their seat.

  38. You would at most remove the compulsion which arises from competition, to introduce the compulsion which uses physical force.

  39. He no longer uses the first of these given names.

  40. He uses the full modern orchestra only upon the rarest occasions, and then more often for color than for volume.

  41. That others gross wits uses to refine, When I most need it duls the edg of mine.

  42. The grand jury, however, has its plain uses wherever political feeling leads to public disorder.

  43. The author uses his materials with great ingenuity, his plot is cleverly devised, and he very effectively works up to a striking dénouement.

  44. The Attu weaver uses the stems and leaves of grass, having no trees and few plants.

  45. He describes their habits and habitations almost as La Perouse did, but uses no expression of disgust or horror.

  46. The day has gone by when it was necessary to argue at length the uses of technical instruction.

  47. Almost everyone nowadays uses a machine of some sort; and there can be no question that in such use there is a serious lack of intelligence.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.