Usages
['jʊsɪdʒ]
Examples
- Common affection might have been satisfied with common usages. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She volunteered to copy many of his letters, and adroitly altered the spelling of them so as to suit the usages of the present day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was Pliny who wrote, at the beginning of the Christian era, that All the usages of civilised life depend in a remarkable degree upon the employment of paper. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It leaveth no profit for the usages of the moneys; and, besides, the good horse may have suffered wrong in this day's encounter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Edited by Bertram