Used Sentence Examples
He used to be a pretty good mechanic.
He is selling a used vehicle that is five years old.
I used to trust Dad.
I'll just have to get used to being idle.
We are so used to being with the big boys.
We used to be so close.
Frank is a very nervous dog who isn't used to being left alone.
Used motorcycles and scooters are on sale.
There used to be houses around here long time ago.
I used to play the lottery too.
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When I was a very little child I used to sit in my mother's lap all the time, because I was very timid, and did not like to be left by myself.
He used to pay $10; now he pays one dollar.
My parents used to listen to those old songs.
Carmen wiped Destiny's face and eyes with the cool rag and used a tissue to wipe her nose.
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Volunteers and militia were used to being called out to stop violence.
The property used to be run commercially as an equestrian center, but is not used as a private property.
All council officers carry identification cards and are quite used to being challenged.
He rang the little bell which was used to call the page, but no page answered.
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He probably didn't realize she wasn't used to riding.
First, we are becoming usedto being watched.
Probably not or he would have used it.
Used laptops are still useful.
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It is a custom in the South to build a small house near the homestead as an annex to be used on occasion.
She knew for certain that she was pretty, but this no longer gave her satisfaction as it used to.
The clerk several times used the word "plenary" (of the service), a word Petya did not understand.
He had used her and she had been fool enough to think he was actually interested in her.
My grandmother used to say, "There is many a slip between cup and lip."
I remember how unbearable I used to find the inquisitiveness of my friends' children; but I know now that these questions indicate the child's growing interest in the cause of things.
Mom used to say that children and dogs weren't fooled by people.
For all you gadabouts and tourists used to driving hither and yon, a weekend trip to New England is a piece of cake.
It was where the barber shop used to be located.
I used them a lot over the years, not always to the FBI liking which didn't help my career but I found they often work.
I'm not used to cold weather.
Get used to it.
People used to sweep the streets at night until a machine replaced them.
She remembers all that I told her about it, and in telling her mother REPEATED THE VERY WORDS AND PHRASES I HAD USED IN DESCRIBING IT TO HER.
I hadn't used this expression.
He liked to hear the folk tales one of the soldiers used to tell of an evening (they were always the same), but most of all he liked to hear stories of real life.
I always wondered if that was why Mom and Dad split up for a while - because Mom was used to a different lifestyle and social circle.
You haven't used it once.
Hard green wood just cut, though I used but little of that, answered my purpose better than any other.
When I was quite little that used to be so with me.
He had grown, become rosier, had curly dark hair, and, when merry and laughing, quite unconsciously lifted the upper lip of his pretty little mouth just as the little princess used to do.
I am used to something sweet.
I'm not used to dealing with humans.
As a stranger to human affection, he'd never quite gotten used to her hugs.
Get used to that now.
I'm used to it.
He was brusque and candid, two traits she hadn't yet gotten used to.
They lived about a mile off through the woods, and were quite used to the route.
He used to make a cable for his anchor of strips of hickory bark tied together.
That is the actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet, said the Danish charge d'affaires.
He was unpleasantly struck, too, by the excessive contempt for others that he observed in Speranski, and by the diversity of lines of argument he used to support his opinions.
That Prince Andrew's deeply loved affianced wife--the same Natasha Rostova who used to be so charming--should give up Bolkonski for that fool Anatole who was already secretly married (as Pierre knew), and should be so in love with him as to agree to run away with him, was something Pierre could not conceive and could not imagine.
I'm more used to country property where doors and windows are left open, making my life oh so easy.
If I was stopped by the police I could have used the escort.
Everything is still just sitting there from the last time we used it.
We all had nicknames for each other and that's what we used, though some weren't said to their faces.
Just that someone in his family had a place near the beach, up the coast, and no one used it.
He used an alias and he fits your time table perfectly.
I just hoped and prayed somehow his contact of Ben or Howie could be used to locate us.
She was used to the teenage fits of temperament after spending the summer with her newly turned twenty-year-old brother.
She was so used to her brother that she didn't notice him grow up, but she saw it in Kyle.
He blinked and used his power to Travel to his study.
It was a subtle shift, an undercurrent of cool energy that brushed by him, like when Sofi used her voodoo fortune-telling powers around him.
He wasn't used to failure, and he didn't know how to take it.
He'd used the excuse of HQ moving to Miami a year before to upgrade everything in the room.
It's like a chess game, and the humans are pawns to be used and destroyed, he explained.
Even the crossbow she'd used the other night was clean and perched where she'd found it, loaded once again.
I get off on killing you idiots, she said in the same calm voice she used with Jonny.
The cold night didn't affect Jule this time; he used his magic to keep himself warm.
He recognized the procedure but hadn't heard of it being used since before his brother, Darian, had died thousands of years ago.
Two rolled from his place on the concrete floor in the corner and unwrapped the ratty blanket he used to keep himself warm.
That she'd used him, killed Darian … "Damian."
She'd never loved Darian and had used him to gain his title and power.
She recognized his tone; it was one Damian used when making her boundaries with him clear.
I'm used to one of them following me around like a puppy.
You didn't used to …touch me without asking.
I used to be able to help people like you.
Kris said nothing, feeling at once foolish and like he was the child Andre used to chastise for failing to focus on his duties.
New clothes had never felt so nice, even if they were used!
I used to be a cop.
This will warm your blood, best get used to the taste.
No, he'll just have to keep his temper in check for a while until he is used to it.
He paused for a moment before continuing, Elisabeth, I used to believe living an eternity would be more than I could endure.
Once they had settled on October 12th for the wedding, and decided to use the same caterer they used for the Halloween gala, Elisabeth suggested they give it a rest until after Christmas.
How do you get used to carrying something half your size?
No, I used a Saanen buck.
There's a spot down yonder on the creek where all us kids used to swim in the summer.
It was obvious he was used to running things, but his help often became an attempt to take over the barn.
I'm not used to asking permission.
They used our skills against us.
It didn't take much for her to realize he'd used one of the Horsemen.
He used his body to back her against the wall.
You could say they were used for leverage if the country trounced too far on our generosity or refused to take into account our national interest when they acted up.
She'd truly cared for someone for the first time in her life, and he'd used her.
He'd used her and saved her, not for her, but for his own purposes!
We could've used some help.
She knew the manual labor class worked with their hands, but she didn't realize they used them to do more than serve the elite.
Most were in working order and just needed to be reactivated, a simple process she used her micro to do when no one was looking.
You should get used to it, though, Pops. What'll you do when your daughter is born?
Can Hannah's blood be used like Katie's?
I don't know why I am the way I am. I don't even know much of the Immortal Code, just the few key parts Andre used to lecture me about. Loyalty to my brothers, my mate, the Immortals, humanity. Respect for Death and her domain. Other variations of those.
Yes. And the man in black who used to visit you.
Katie hesitated before shuffling forward on her knees. She carefully touched the woman's leg then patted it as she followed it down to the thick roots wrapped around her ankles. Unable to see exactly how she was stuck, Katie used her cold fingers to fumble around the root and the woman's sneakers. "It's really jammed in there," she said at last.
I never used powder or cover-up because there wasn't any for someone with skin as pale as mine.
Dean, who'd been on the force for their entire tenure, was used to their early morning bickering and paid no attention.
Dean had used a less intrusive pad and pencil with Cynthia Byrne.
Jeff used to jog and all but he got a bum knee.
He used to do some work for World Wide Insurance—where Byrne worked.
I have to start getting used to the fact life goes on.
I'm used to everything being all screwed up.
Not too many have used the car as new as it is.
Dean was down to 11 dollars and change, so he used his Visa card, holding his breath that it wasn't maxed-out while the clerk ran it through the recording machine.
Here I used an assumed name and all and you ran me down.
He used the age-old method of asking questions that needed answers until she swung into something akin to conversation.
Jeff used to ride, years ago.
None of 'em used.'
A mock court room allows you to get used to being in a court room.
Service managers should pro-actively consult the local community on discarded usedinjecting equipment.
But I'm afraid you cannot rule the Emerald City, as you used to, because we now have a beautiful Princess whom everyone loves dearly.
As machines do ever more things that we used to do, we will have more choices for how we spend our time.
We are used to non-rationed goods, unlimited food in grocery stores, and the overall widespread availability of inexpensive quality products.
Let's talk a moment about patriotism and nationalism, words frequently used but seldom clearly defined.
Our favourite walk was to Keller's Landing, an old tumbledown lumber-wharf on the Tennessee River, used during the Civil War to land soldiers.
Down these steep slopes we used to coast.
I used to make noises, keeping one hand on my throat while the other hand felt the movements of my lips.
With this machine movable type shuttles can be used, and one can have several shuttles, each with a different set of characters--Greek, French, or mathematical, according to the kind of writing one wishes to do on the typewriter.
It comes over me that in the last two or three pages of this chapter I have used figures which will turn the laugh against me.
This reminds me that Dr. Hale used to give a personal touch to his letters to me by pricking his signature in braille.
I used to think, when I read in my books about your great city, that when I visited it the people would be strangers to me, but now I feel differently.
I had used it all through my school work, and never any other system.
Dear Frau Grote learned the manual alphabet, and used to teach me herself; but this was in private lessons, which were paid for by my friends.
Miss Keller used to knit and crochet, but she has had better things to do.
I made her understand, by pointing to a trunk in the hall and to myself and nodding my head, that I had a trunk, and then made the sign that she had used for eating, and nodded again.
I made the signs that she had used when she wished me to go for the cake, and pushed her toward the door.
I used my little stock of beads, cards and straws at first because I didn't know what else to do; but the need for them is past, for the present at any rate.
This morning she used the conjunction AND for the first time.
She evidently understood that VERY was the name of the new thing that had come into her head; for all the way back to the house she used the word VERY correctly.
Keller's Landing was used during the war to land troops, but has long since gone to pieces, and is overgrown with moss and weeds.
Helen had been given a bed and carriage for her dolls, which she had received and used like any other gift.
I got the milk to show her that she had used the correct word; but I did not let her drink it until she had, with my assistance, made a complete sentence, as "Give Helen some milk to drink."
You must remember, dear teacher, that Greek parents were very particular with their children, and they used to let them listen to wise words, and I think they understood some of them.
She recognized that others used their lips; she "saw" her father reading a paper and when he laid it down she sat in his chair and held the paper before her face.
Before describing the process of teaching Helen to speak, it may be well to state briefly to what extent she had used the vocal organs before she began to receive regular instruction in articulation.
The language must be one used by a nation, not an artificial thing.
Stevenson, whom Miss Sullivan likes and used to read to her pupil, is another marked influence.
He came here a-fishing, and used an old log canoe which he found on the shore.
Like the wasps, before I finally went into winter quarters in November, I used to resort to the northeast side of Walden, which the sun, reflected from the pitch pine woods and the stony shore, made the fireside of the pond; it is so much pleasanter and wholesomer to be warmed by the sun while you can be, than by an artificial fire.
He brought his own knife, though I had two, and we used to scour them by thrusting them into the earth.
The next winter I used a small cooking-stove for economy, since I did not own the forest; but it did not keep fire so well as the open fireplace.
It will soon be forgotten, in these days of stoves, that we used to roast potatoes in the ashes, after the Indian fashion.
I used to start them in the open land also, where they had come out of the woods at sunset to "bud" the wild apple trees.
The hunter who told me this could remember one Sam Nutting, who used to hunt bears on Fair Haven Ledges, and exchange their skins for rum in Concord village; who told him, even, that he had seen a moose there.
Nutting had a famous foxhound named Burgoyne--he pronounced it Bugine--which my informant used to borrow.
It is well known that a level cannot be used on ice.
He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice--idleness and superstition, and only two virtues--activity and intelligence.
Get used to it and you'll like it, and he patted her cheek.
Rapidly leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, young face to look back.
Despite his desperate shouts that used to seem so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the air, and disobeying orders.
Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it.
Dressed as she used to be in Petersburg society, it was still more noticeable how much plainer she had become.
Round it stood seven large candlesticks like those used in churches.
What was new in them was a certain uneasiness and occasional discord, which there used not to be, and which, as Nicholas soon found out, was due to the bad state of their affairs.
Count Pierre never used to forget us.
Natasha was so used to this kind of talk with her husband that for her it was the surest sign of something being wrong between them if Pierre followed a line of logical reasoning.
They can be used and can circulate and fulfill their purpose without harm to anyone and even advantageously, as long as no one asks what is the security behind them.
The lower section of the restaurant is a "subterranean lounge/party room" used for private events, and features a slightly different menu than upstairs that is not all-you-can-eat.
The lounge decorated with a fireplace and bar, typically is used for events.
The sports bar has been remodeled and is much more inviting that it used to be.
Located in a historic downtown location that used to cater to loggers, fisherman and railroad workers, the restaurant's atmosphere is relaxed and comfortable.
Many of the herbs used in the restaurant are grown in its private garden.
Twenty-five percent of all of the electricity used in the restaurant is generated by the sun.
All the meals are made to order and only the finest ingredients are used.
Soaring roofs reach toward the sky over a building in which no nails were used in the construction.
Common ingredients used in their recipes include saffron rice, apricots, ginger sauce and couscous.
The restaurant consists of a large rectangular bar is at the entrance, gleaming in brass and dark wood, and a dining room that is brightly lit with well used wood floors and brass nameplates at each seat that frequent diners have claimed.
This warm and sophisticated eatery of "rustic elegance" offers seasonal cuisine to ensure that only the freshest ingredients are used.
Chances are he used your blood to incapacitate Damian.
In the words of an Oracle I once knew, get used to it.
It was probably just Darkyn's magic, which he used to kill the demons.
She hadn't heard him enter but doubted the Dark One used doors.
She said she made me, used me and was done with me.
You can always walk away, she told him, repeating the words Darkyn used to lure her into the deal they made originally.
I used to do this for a living— " "What?
Cynthia used Martha's smile to pursue the reason for their questioning.
He opened the bottom drawer, placed it in the back beneath his never used shorts and closed it with a slam.
That takes guts," Dean said, then added with a smile, "So goodie little Cynthia used to get her bum-bum paddled, huh?"
We used to go there to bail out the old man.
That's great had already been used.
A hundred yards ahead of them the infrequently used Jeep road became impassable in a washed-out jumble of stone.
Two used condoms were nearby.
Used to be we didn't have hooligans running around out here causing problems.
In the mountains, everybody used to help everyone else.
Back then before the war we used to take the train, later the bus.
Dean considered his poking options as he used half a cake of soap to scrub away the stink of the mine.
Someone had a campfire and it looked as if the door on the mine was used for fire wood.
Used to be, you saw ads all over the place.
Jennifer began snapping her small camera at the first vista until she realized she'd used more than half the roll.
He never got used to death, especially the young.
Dean returned to Bird Song mid-morning, showered, and walked the three blocks to Diversions, a combination used book store, coffee shop, and local gathering place, on Sixth Street, a half block from Main.
It used to be closed tighter than a kiddie cap on a pill bottle.
My pa used to play cards with Blackie Rowland.
Then Harold added, There used to be an Art Dawkins in Montrose.
He was the one who could have used it.
We used to camp over on the Gunnison River, and fish some, all four of us.
You will find much of your power diminished, especially among those who used to bow to you.
Her skin was prickling the way it did when another deity used magic around her, the fair hair on her arms standing on end.
She used it to warm up her socks.
It was how things always used to be with her.
You didn't used to be a weak, puny human.
In the meantime, killing dealers he used to consider colleagues or allies weighed heavily on his emotions at a time when he needed to think clearly.
He used to frown at her when she acted outside the Immortal Laws, unable to appreciate that a deity charged with managing a domain often had to take steps outside the rules to protect one's underworld.
Deidre shifted, aware again that she was now defenseless against the creatures that used to either fear her or at least, respect her power.
He used his power to soothe her sleep.
Though he possessed nowhere near the level of power he used to, he was still able to sense the figure cowering in a corner.
Let her get used to you first.
We used to talk a lot, you know.
He used to be awake instantly - another indication that this thing with Lori was troubling him deeper than he would admit.
It wasn't what she had said, nor would she have used those words to describe her feelings.
Alex says it's best to let them alone, but Casper is used to being around me.
She put the heel of her hand on the place where blood was coming out and used her other hand to press down hard.
She'll get used to the change, though, and respond the way everyone around her does.
If he would only put an arm around her when they slept, like he used to, she might feel better.
This Deidre and the one he used to know were two different people.
The magic I used to kill her, I also used to seal the tumor.
You don't follow the same rules you used to.
Jealous. She never used silk with me.
The peacemaker of the brothers, Andre instinctively used his gift of mind control to counter the tempers of his fiery brothers.
He looked at her, and she smiled the same gentle smile she used to greet humans to the underworld.
She really didn't give a damn if he wasn't used to being challenged.
We can't talk freely like we used to.
Used my newfound power to steal a key from some robed freak.
It was muggier than she was used to, the air clinging to her already hot skin.
Yes, I am used to giving orders, orders that everyone follows.
You'll get used to them.
Well, it does take some getting used to.
She looked at the bottle anew, thoughts going to the long list of Immortals she could.ve used it on instead of bearing their attacks.
He entered the castle, following the scents up the back stairwell that Katie alone used to avoid the other Immortals.
Kris does a big feast here every year, and Andre used to arrange the December holiday celebration.
It was a word Andre had used that Rhyn never understood.
The cafeteria was four times the size of the one she was used to, and she lingered in the doorway, finally catching the attention of a convent member.
It is not at all customary to how the Sanctuary is meant to be used, she said sternly.
What words had Rhyn used?
Just not used to their bathrooms yet.
Lines had been drawn on the grass, large squares like those used for wrestling, with a circle in the center.
He used his body to guide hers.
He'd never seen art of this kind, only the statues of his father's court and the multi-hued strands used to decorate homes.
He'd never used her name before.
She was getting used to the hard stares the warriors gave her, the only indication of their surprise at her candidness.
Mansr took her a different route than the one she'd used to enter, one that sloped down and then up.
Despite the piercing gaze she'd never quite gotten used to, she stepped past Jetr and looked up at her mate, taking him in breathlessly once again.
She doubted she'd ever get used to his towering size or strength.
I can't think who else would have used it in the last hundred years.
I used to send my laundry out, before I married a washer woman, but I never put my name on my shorts!
I used my charge card and he'll trace us here.
He used to be a police detective, back in Pennsylvania.
Her dress was a half a step above the rag she used to polish the furniture and her hair had longer roots than Elmer Fudd's garden.
I used to pretend when I was young.
I used to believe in ghosts when I was young.
Are you going in the used clothing business next?
She used to tell me all the time.
She used to talk of Annie all the time, tell us how brave her sister was, how she and the Reverend administered to the sick, and those women.
These were the first three characters used on the first page of the notebook and the combination appeared with regularity throughout the book.
I skipped ahead to a page where she used more punctuation and it helped.
And I'm still bothered that there are twenty-seven characters used and not just twenty-six.
The space business doesn't seem to work but she might have used a character for a period.
You get used to knowing the different types of hardness and thickness.
Jerome used to do that.
I used to do that as a child with Claire.
He ravaged me, and he used me, just to gain access....
She's used to being dominated.
He used to beat the shit out of his shack full of kids just to keep in shape.
Liquor was something Cynthia used infrequently and not very well.
She'd like to kill the...she used a term very uncommon to her usual vocabulary.
You used to be a big city detective.
Either Jerome Shipton would have seen the cut and not used the rope, or he would have fallen so far he'd be whispering to Lucifer, not Jake Weller.
I don't feel the same as I used to come Monday mornings.
None of us is as young as he used to be.
It was never clear if that was the case and the kid lucked out, but Dean used the excuse of mock consternation to excuse himself and walk uptown to telephone Cynthia.
He grasped her wrist with his one free hand but she used the other.
We can't say if she planned on killing him with it or was just protecting herself but later she used it to cut his line.
She even used the same fountain pen she used when she registered here at Bird Song, when she signed 'Edith Jones.'
Used to being alone, she was content with her own company.
The collection was made up of Shipton's newly purchased, barely used, ice climbing gear, ropes, ice axes, pitons and various garments.
So, you think Jerome Shipton cut the line so it looked like someone was trying to kill him and then used the remaining portion to loop through an anchor so he could then rappel down?
Shipton had used a gnarled cedar, years dead, as an anchor for his line.
I can't see why the fact that he used a pen would send you dashing up to the ice park and half kill yourself.
Just because Shipton had a key don't mean he used it.
Besides, Edith had the pen in her possession so he lacked any opportunity to change it back to the color she used years earlier when she wrote the suicide note.
I wouldn't be surprised he used them to mop up something, blood perhaps.
Then he added, "Or, perhaps he used it, to stuff it in her mouth and silence her while he choked her to death."
She used wax to bind the partially severed ends together, just enough that a cursory glance wouldn't disclose what she'd done.
He suspected Standish knew Sarah's secret all along and only used her to turn him.
As he approached the door, Jackson thought about the last time he used this room.
You get used to it.
I swear, I have never used influence on you for any reason, never!
He wanted to scream; he wasn't used to women challenging him this way and had no idea how to turn this around.
Great. I'd like the name of the caterer you used.
She crunched up her face, then used her index finger to wipe Elisabeth's thumb.
I guess this is going to take some getting used to.
They used Billie's privates for an ashtray.
Fred was so sticky-sweet on the phone with the landlady that Dean took a break and used the john just so he wouldn't have to listen to the dribble.
Maybe Corbin just used it too and received some mail there.
He could account for the correct mileage on the car if he used a tow bar that kept the wheels on the road.
He could figure the gas he'd have used and written his own receipt when he filled up the motor home, stopping after filling the tank part way.
Because he parked the motor home in some campground near Norfolk, then transferred the bike to his car, stashed the bike somewhere down the beach and used it the next morning, like you said, to get back to the motor home.
You've used up your quota of thank you's.
While Fred had chatted amiably during the course of the two weeks, he confined his discussions to methods that might be used in finding and identifying Byrne, and never complained about having to remain in Parkside.
They both knew Pat Corbin was one of the names used in Scranton.
I think he used to bike and I do some myself.
And I spent a lot of time wondering why there weren't any fingerprints on a gun that had just been used by a guy not wearing gloves.
My sainted daddy used to say there are two things in life you don't want to see, sausage being made and laws being passed.
I'm not used to having a phone in the house, much less carrying a cell phone.
Joan used the tablet as a shield, as if hiding her comment from Carmen while informing the entire room.
Remember when we used to chant that?
Who was it that used the term 'mature male'?
The trees flowed gracefully down the mountain side, ending in the pasture where the goats used to graze.
It would be used as winter fodder for the two goats she had kept.
By the expression on your face, I'm guessing you've never used a rope swing.
You're just used to working all the time.
It was the worst defense he could have used.
And she had rubbed her morals in his face again – only this time she had used other people's opinion as a hammer to drive her morals home.
The wall at her back gave her support to press closer to him, and when he freed one hand, she used it to grasp his neck and pull his lips down harder on her own.
There were two runs, so that grass could grow in one while the other was being used.
My dad always used to say that every animal on the farm should pay its own way.
He used to dance with me and Mom when we were listening to the radio in the evenings.
It was mostly used by deer, but she had been up it a number of times with her father.
If you were suddenly available, he'd drop her like a used rag.
How did a couple get used to undressing in front of each other?
She would get used to it.
I used to walk up on the hill by myself all the time.
I'm kind of used to being frugal.
After purchasing a conservative blouse and jeans of quality, she moved on to a less crowded grocery store than the budget one she usually used.
I might as well get used to doing them.
Would you mind if I used mother's dishes?
I'd feel honored if you brought your mother's dishes here and used them instead of these.
Carmen used the chore of setting the table to avoid his gaze.
As Mom used to say, truth hurts, but surely silver tongued Alex could have found a less contentious way of saying it.
In any event, he never used that bathroom.
She giggled as he used it to drag her back into his arms.
As Mom used to say, he'd get glad the same way he got mad.
Sometime she would have to get out the old cane pole and fish like she used to.
He was always looking out for her — at least he used to.
It wasn't as if they used it to communicate anyway.
I used to be able to talk to you, but you've changed.
I want things to be the way they used to be between us, Alex, but I'm lost.
If they get used, we'll use them together.
Once before he had used that logic, and it had been a prelude to a fiasco.
I used to sit in it all the time.
Alex and I used to set there together and watch the sunrise.
We used to be a team.
It was the first time she used the name and her voice broke with emotion when she said it.
We used to spar every day, until a few months ago, when I took a mate.
She used what strength she had to roll onto her back, desperate for a Healer.
With a complexion like hers, he was often mistaken as her brother, a similarity they'd used in the past to keep people from finding out she was Damian's mate.
If all was as it used to be, at one end of the orchard was the White God's palace, a place a woman raised as a peasant had never seen.
Where Xander used brute force to subdue an opponent, Darian was wily.
Whether he used his magic to put her to sleep, or her body needed it, she instantly fell into a deep, dreamless slumber.
They used mind manipulation to control you, which wasn't possible with Xander there to protect you.
Returning to the cell, she used the long-sleeved shirt to wipe the blood off her body quickly and then to clean the blades of the weapons she snatched off the ground.
What is it you used to say to me?
Her blue eyes flashed with familiar fire, fire that used to make his blood hot for her.
I remember how we used to walk this stretch every night, before the Schism.
You've always used us.
We used magic on their minds and the freezer for their bodies.
You've used everyone to win a war that none of us understood.
My father believed the demon should only be used to do good.
In the body of the good, the demon's magic was used for good.
The more the warlords used the magic for themselves, the worse their fates and the faster their madness came.
Every emotion she experienced used to be written on her face.
Still, what was it Dad used to say?
It wasn't the first time Carmen had used a gun, but it was the first time Alex had seen her use one.
He used to be able to read her every thought, but lately he seemed to do more misreading than anything else.
Grabbing a bucket, she headed for what used to be her goat dairy.
The way he dressed and acted indicated he was used to feminine attention.
Rob latched on to the largest bedroom – the one she had used.
I want to bury him up on the hill under that dogwood tree where he used to lay during the summer.
The animals are used to seeing us, and the horses often graze with them, so I don't think we will have any problems with the safari animals or the natural wildlife.
They're used to seeing horses out here.
It was a term that they had used as children, and it took her back to a simpler time.
I used to catch crawdads in this creek with my friends when I was a kid.
We used to fry them for supper.
Monday morning while Felipa took the men riding and the children were coloring, Carmen used her new cell phone to call the employment office.
I believe the last time I used a gun on this place was to defend you – from a bear.
For a moment his gaze ran over her face like it used to, and then his expression softened.
As Dad used to say, a hit dog always hollers.
She would bring Princess up to the pasture where Ed used to be.
This was the way it used to be.
She might as well get used to the fact that she was on her own.
I used the D word first.
Pulling the hair off her neck into a French roll, she used a few bejeweled clips and let it go at that.
It wasn't something she wanted to think about, but she'd best get used to it.
His arms and chest were more muscular than they used to be.
Still, I never realized how many ways they can be used.
Did you know they can be used as pack animals?
There used to be nothing they couldn't discuss.
She could drive her car out and back, but by that time she would have used precious vacation time.
Singing softly, she turned out onto the three-lane highway and used the center lane to execute a left turn onto a four lane highway.
She was getting used to the water and it felt good, but she would have preferred a swim in the ocean.
I suppose people can get used to anything.
I always used to help Dad that way.
Anyway, you get used to it - at least to some degree.
I haven't yet, but then you're used to heat a lot worse than this, aren't you?
You used to be so considerate.
He'll get used to your money.
I just said it was going to take some getting used to – as will the lifestyle.
I suppose – though I don't think I'd mind getting used to financial security.
It won't be the same as home, but maybe I'll get used to that too.
He used his gifts to get him home, fast, after another of his senses tipped him off.
All fell beneath the creatures she created in the human realm and used the bridges to cross into this one.
His features were open with her; he had never entered her mind unbidden or used his skills or magic against her.
Xander used his senses to find the girl within the bright building.
She used it against him one time too many and burned any bridge he might consider passable.
Eden used Xander for her own means and yet, the Original Human's final acts of limiting Xander's power had been selfless.
She found herself counting how many exclamation points Ingrid used before she read through the rules.
The twins were used to her chatter.
Not that he used the front door, but it's where Cat was always perched when he returned.
I don't want to be used by him or Gerry.
I got used to working two jobs.
I created an army of vamps Eden used to overthrow her enemies while I overthrew mine.
After all, complete strangers showed up at their apartment and used magic to take them to some place halfway across the country.
What happened soon became apparent; there was a neat hole in the top story of the building where Xander's condo used to be.
He imagined the ocean breeze zipping straight through where his living room used to be.
Darian was armed with knives and a short sword for the hunt; Xander used nothing but his hands and fangs.
A vamp approached with the type of wand security personnel at airports used.
Xander went through a familiar routine, one he used on traitors.
The chapel, much enlarged, is still used by this denomination.
A favourite haunt used to be the swamp of Azufghur, lying among the sal-forests to the northward of Meerut.
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In each of a number of experiments he found that the weight of the silver iodide did not differ by one twenty-thousandth of the whole from the sum of the weights of the silver and the iodine used.
The "symbols" for the elements used by Dalton, apparently suggested by those of the alchemists, have been rejected in favour of those which were introduced by Berzelius.
The first obscure and conf used conception of law gradually becomes clearer and better defined.
The metal is chiefly used, as the oxide, for colouring glass and porcelain.
This salt may be used for the separation of cobalt and nickel, since the latter metal does not form a similar double nitrite, but it is necessary that the alkaline earth metals should be absent, for in their presence nickel forms complex nitrites containing the alkaline earth metal and the alkali metal.
The crisis came, and he used it to the full.
The compiler of this work, however, seems to have used a regnal list of the Bernician kings, which differed considerably from most of those found in our early authorities.
A large brass vessel used as a standard measure for the lead ore, and dating from the time of Henry VIII., is preserved.
The iron wire used for wire-netting, telegraphic purposes, &c., is commonly galvanized, as also are bolts, nuts, chains and other fittings on ships.
This last post left him plenty of leisure, which he used for travelling and cultivating the society of interesting people, a taste which earned him the title of Monsignore Ubique.
The pope had repeatedly used the rich northern benefices to reward members of the Roman curia, and towards the close of the year 1516 he sent the grasping and impolitic Arcimboldi as papal nuncio to Denmark to collect money for St Peter's.
An Ursuline convent, built in 1764, serves as hotel de ville and law court, and a church of the 14th century is used as a market.
The minute insects included in it, which haunt blossoms and leaves, are fairly well known to gardeners by the name Thrips, a generic term used by Linnaeus for the four species of the group which he had examined and relegated to the order Hemiptera.
At Geneva the mountain was in former days named the Montagne 1Vlaudite, but the present name seems to have been always used locally.
The electroscope was used in conjunction with an oil lamp or gas flame.
Of liquid collectors the representative is Lord Kelvin's water-dropping electrograph; while Benndorf's is the form of radium collector that has been most used.
Kelvin, Maclean and Galt regard this property of falling water as an objection to the use of a water-dropper indoors, though not of practical importance when it is used out of doors.
I + is used to denote the charge on positive ions, I_ that on negative ions.
Firefly is a term popularly used for certain tropical American click-beetles (Pyrophorus), due to their power of emitting light.
The queen set about to obtain a divorce, and used her influence for the return of Albany as a means of undoing her husband's power.
Less manure is used in these cellars than we generally see in the mushroom-houses of England, and the surface of each bed is covered with about an inch of fine white stony soil.
This fungus, Marasmius Oreades, is more universally used in France and Italy than in England, although it is well known and frequently used both in a fresh and in a dry state in England.
Natural gas, piped from the Kansas fields, is used for light and power, and electricity for commercial lighting and power is derived from plants on Spring River, near Vark, Kansas, and on Shoal creek.
Jn 1841 natural gas was found with salt brine in a well on the Kanawha, and was used as a fuel to evaporate the salt water.
The present name, derived from Clarus Mons and originally applied only to the citadel, was used of the town as early as the 9th century.
Apotheosis may also be used in wider senses.
Curiously, Apotheosis is used by the Latin Christian poet, Prudentius (c. 400), as the title of a poem defending orthodox views on the person of Christ and other points of doctrine - the affectation of a decadent age.
Various preparations in form of powder are used for toilet purposes.
Throughout the middle ages, moreover, the word alba was somewhat loosely used.
The white Oamaru stone is commonly used in these buildings.
There are several fine public buildings, as the governor's palace, the new opera-house, the public library and museum of Maltese antiquities, and the auberges or lodges of the Knights of Malta (especially the Auberge de Castile) which are now used for military offices, club-rooms, and other purposes.
The governor's palace was formerly that of the grand master of the Maltese Order, and it also contains relics of the knights, tapestries, armour, &c. Extensive bagnios under the rock, formerly occupied by the slaves of the knights, are now used for stores.
After not a little hesitation, Hastings consented to allow the Company's troops to be used to further the ambitious designs of his Oudh ally, in consideration of a sum of money which relieved the ever-pressing wants of the Bengal treasury.
Oxen and cows are of secondary importance and the climate is unsuitable for sheep; horses of a small breed are used to some extent.
It was used by him in his earliest observations of double stars (1779-1783); but, even in his hands, the measurements were comparatively crude, because of the difficulties he had to encounter from the want of a parallactic mounting.
One of the most essential points in a good micrometer is that all the webs shall be so nearly in the same plane as to be well in focus together under the highest powers used, and at the same time absolutely free from " fiddling."
To avoid such error Dawes used double wires, not spider webs, placing the image of the star symmetrically between these wires, as in fig.
I, 2 and 3), used to bolt the head of one of the screws, and the instrument was provided with a slipping piece, giving motion to the micrometer by screws acting on two slides, one in right ascension, the other in declination, so that " either of the, webs can be placed upon either component of a double star with ease and certainty (Mem.
It is practically impossible to work with the sensitive film in contact with the reseau-film, not only because dust particles and contact would injure the silver film, but also because the plate-glass used for the photographic plates is seldom a perfect plane.
The apparatus has been used with complete success at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, and at Melbourne, Sydney and Cordoba.
The chief drawback to type A is that the errors of the screw are liable to change by wear, otherwise the apparatus, as made and used at Potsdam, is, on the whole, a convenient and accurate one.
The method originally used by Huggins, who first conceived and proved the possibility of measuring stellar velocities in the line of sight, was to measure with a filar micrometer the displacement of some well-known line in a stellar spectrum relative to the corresponding line of a terrestrial spectrum.
In the language of the Christian Church the word " infallibility " is used in a more absolute sense, as the freedom from all possibility of error guaranteed by the direct action of the Spirit of God.
It was not infrequently used as a place of exile.
Intermarriage (sometimes illicit) was apparently freely used by the dominant families for the concentration of their power.
A large variety of materials have been used in their manufacture by different peoples at different times - painted linen and shavings of stained horn by the Egyptians, gold and silver by the Romans, rice-paper by the Chinese, silkworm cocoons in Italy, the plumage of highly coloured birds in South America, wax, small tinted shells, &c. At the beginning of the 8th century the French, who originally learnt the art from the Italians, made great advances in the accuracy of their reproductions, and towards the end of that century the Paris manufacturers enjoyed a world-wide reputation.
The dockyard, chiefly used for naval repairs, covers about 60 acres, and consists of three basins and large docks, the depth of water in the basins ranging down to 26 ft.
His action led to an altercation with Ossory, the son of Ormonde, in which Ossory used language for which he was compelled to apologize.
For birds it is chiefly used of geese; and for other animals most generally of sheep and goats.
It is from the particular application of the word to sheep that "flock" is used of the Christian Church in its relation to the "Good Shepherd," and also of a congregation of worshippers in its relation to its spiritual head.
This material is used for stuffing mattresses or pillows, and also in upholstery.
The word "flocculent" is used of many substances which have a fleecy or "flock"-like appearance, such as a precipitate of ferric hydrate.
Larnaca occupies the site of the ancient Citium, but the citadel of the ancient city was used to fill up the ancient harbour in 1879.
The province used to be one of the administrative divisions of Khorasan, but is now a separate province, with a governor appointed by the shah.
For two years more the fighting continued with varying success, until Charles of Valois, who had been sent by Boniface to invade Sicily, was forced to sue for peace, his army being decimated by the plague, and in August 1302 the treaty of Caltabellotta was signed, by which Frederick was recognized king of Trinacria (the name Sicily was not to be used) for his lifetime, and was to marry Eleonora, the daughter of Charles II.; at his death the kingdom was to revert to the Angevins (this clause was inserted chiefly to save Charles's face), and his children would receive compensation elsewhere.
The mistletoe so extensively used in England at Christmas is largely derived from the apple orchards of Normandy; a quantity is also sent from the apple orchards of Herefordshire.
Prepared as a draught, it was used as a cure for sterility and a remedy for poisons.
As a proof of the seriousness with which he regarded the literary vocation, it may be mentioned that he used to write out his poems in printed characters, believing that that process best enabled him to understand his own peculiarities and faults, and probably unconscious that Coleridge had recommended some such method of criticism when he said he thought "print settles it."
Among other objects also known by the name of "cat" is the small piece of wood pointed at either end used in the game of tip-cat, and the instrument of punishment, generally known as the "cat o' nine tails."
In the English criminal law, where corporal punishment is ordered by the court for certain criminal offences, the "cat" is used only where the prisoner is over sixteen years of age.
It may not be used except when actually ordered in the sentence, and must be of a pattern approved by a secretary of state.
A form nearer to the Greek original, "anachoret," is sometimes used of the early Christian recluses in the East.
And the algebraists or arithmeticians of the 16th century, such as Luca Pacioli (Lucas de Borgo), Geronimo or Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), and Niccola Tartaglia (1506-1559), had used geometrical constructions to throw light on the solution of particular equations.
From this period dates the castle, and also the buildings of the university, founded by Gabriel Bethlen, and now used as barracks.
Its seeds are very large, and are used as food by the natives.
Four years later Thebes used her new predominance in central Greece to restore the Trachinians, who retained Heraclea until 37 1, when Jason of Pherae seized and dismantled it.