Sentence examples for used from high-quality English sources.

• Flogging was also used.

• Coiled basketry was widely used.

• “Room … we used to live in a corridor!”

• Buying a new car may be more expensive, all in all, than buying used.

• Chlorine is used to purify water.

• Naphthalene is notably used in insecticides.

• Leucite was formerly used in Italy for fertilizer.

• Synthesis gas is used to make ammonia and methanol.

Use used in a sentence.

• The upper stage was used for scenes at windows or walls.

• Lead was used primarily because it was inexpensive and easy to work.

• The essential oil is used to flavour absinthe, anisette, and Pernod liqueurs.

• Meanwhile, 69% of teens said they used Snapchat and 71% said they used Instagram.

• We don’t know how this tear gas will be used in the future, or who it will be used against.

• If certain chemicals are going to be used, the potential hazards need to be identified to ensure that they’re used safely.

• Laver, dulse, gulfweed, and sea lettuce are used as food in various parts of the world, and brown algae are used to make fertilizers.

• So, to help speed up the processing time, cache memory is used to store instructions or data that are either frequently used, have recently been used or are about to be used.

used sentence examples

• He used superfantastic costume and sometimes that device of enormous heads which some 17th-century caricaturists used and which is still used by sports-page cartoonists and comic advertising artists.

• Buttercream icings differ depending on which base is used: meringue (used in Italian or Swiss buttercream), egg yolks (used in French buttercream), butter (used in simple buttercream) or shortening (used in decorators’ buttercream) are the most common bases.

• These words were broken down into eight categories: the most-used keywords, the most-used features and amenities, the most-used luxury features and amenities, the most-used keywords by room, the most-used adjectives, and the most-used brand names.

• used He used to do something, not he did use to do something and certainly not he did used to do something (double imperfect); a column said “high street shops did, it’s true, used to be more varied” – something like “high street shops certainly used to be more varied” would have been better