Word Finder - using

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To utilize or employ.

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To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)

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soldiers who are used to hardships and danger

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(except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)

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I used to get things done.

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To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.

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to use an animal cruelly

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To behave, act, comport oneself.

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Use; utilization

I was using my mother as an excuse.

He's probably just using the bathroom.

Using her momentum, he swung her over his head.

Our internal electrical system works by using cells that have built up electrical gradient or energy that can be given off to other cells by direct transfer.

How long have you been using this device?

Ikir, they're using our tactics against us.

Jade crossed to the window and looked out, formulating a plan to let the demons into the castle using Sasha.

Was she using Alex?

By using the Magic Belt.

Have you been using that machine?

Does Connie know you were using her?

Though he could track her easily, he wasn't certain how to prevent her from using the portals.

They're using some fancy equipment.

What I describe above is using a new technology to solve an existing problem.

Using the path he had given her, she found his financial folder.

Pulling on her boots, she quietly left the house using the back door.

He would never tell her, but be damned if that son-of-a-bitch would get away with hurting and using her that way.

I thought we agreed there was no point in using your mother's old dishes when we could just serve our food from the pans we cook it in?

While I'm searching the ground for footprints, you think you can find her using the technological powerhouse you're sitting on?

The couple from North Carolina, the only guests using their own names, hadn't checked in until evening and remembered nothing.

Of a country hick using a rope swing?

Anyway, I'm using my right arm, not the left.

That was a clever move - using Clara as a source for his information.

I stopped using it only after I had learned to spell the word on my fingers.

Distracted, Gabe began to think about how he might be able to save Deidre using the powers of Death.

The equable temperature of these cellars and their freedom from drought is one cause of their great success; to this must be added the natural virgin spawn, for by continually using spawn taken from mushroom-producing beds the potency for reproduction is weakened.

Dean, absent any tools for pulling himself upward was limited to using the rope, hand over hand, impossibly slow compared to the man now pursuing him.

He looked around using only his eyes, then slowly sat up, staring straight ahead.

Surely you weren't using Lori to get even.

You know tonight I had to prevent the VP's commo guy from using the emergency network to order gin?

Lana read through one detailing the intent to attack using a secret weapon.

Maybe he's gunning for Death's seat and using Rhyn to get to her.

Using his own parameters about mileage and age of the vehicle, he found several cars that fit her criteria.

Using magic in the mortal world was like trying to swim a channel with arms tied.

We have a little over 160 acres, but we aren't using all of it right now.

Using instant potatoes she managed to make a passable potato salad and opened a can of baked beans.

If only the Black God wasn't using her somehow … "Excellent!"

He was named as one of the counsellors to assist the queen, but, fearing to incur the king's displeasure and using his favourite phrase ira principis mors est, he gave her very little help; and he signed the letter to Clement VII.

If the weather is mild, a moderate heat may be obtained by using the apparatus as an ordinary hot water system, and shutting off the steam injectors.

There is no doubt that under average conditions of atmospheric density, the .005 should be replaced by 003, for many independent authorities using different methods have found values very close to this last figure.

Using these buoys to guide the direction of tow, a grapnel, a species of fivepronged anchor, attached to a strong compound rope formed of strands of steel and manila, is lowered to the bottom and dragged at a slow speed, as it were ploughing a furrow in the sea bottom, in a line at right angles to the cable route, until the behaviour of the dynamometer shows that the cable is hooked.

Following on this he made an interesting experiment, using Morse's method, to connect the Isle of Wight telegraphically with the mainland, by conduction across the Solent in two places, during a temporary failure of the submarine cable in 1882 in that channel.

The deputies of the Extreme Left, instead of using their influence in favor of pacification, could think of nothing better than to demand an immediate convocation of parliament in order that they might present a bill forbidding the troops and police to use their arms in all conflicts between capital and labor, whatever the provocation might be.

It would seem that up to the 4th century of our era the Sinhalese had written exclusively in their own tongue; that is to say that for six centuries they had studied and understood Pali as a dead language without using it as a means of literary expression.

Months passed without any action being taken under the protocol of the 4th of April; and Russia suspected Great Britain of merely using the protocol to prevent her Powers as own isolated intervention.

The trustees were required and empowered to maintain, repair and improve the roads committed to their charge, and the expenses of the trust were met by tolls levied on persons using the road.

In some cases it has been found advantageous to quarry and crush rock for the purpose of using it in this way.

By using compressed air vitiation of the mine air is avoided, as well as all danger of fire or explosion of gas.

But notwithstanding its general prevalence in the East for many centuries, authors using it differ much with regard to their manner of expressing dates, in consequence of the different epochs adopted for the beginning of the year.

Thus, for instance, when using an induction coil or transformer to charge a condenser, it is not generally convenient to make more than 50 discharges per second, but each of these may create a train of oscillations consisting of, say, 20 to 50 waves.