"use" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They can sometimes be about a literal use of the word and a metaphor (figurative use).
- The term is still in literal use in the military, particularly the US Army.
- The literal and original use of the word, meant to undo a crossbow, the detention of the cord that launched the arrow.
- Mr. Leichter shuns the kind of literal use of pop music that can be seen in the dancing in music videos.
- Todorov's analysis of the Decameron tales is based on a very rigorous and literal use of linguistic categories.
- Aside from its literal use, the word is also used in Israel to refer to a group of people who moved to Israel together.
- The verb "to enthrall" is of Early Modern origin (metaphorical use from the 1570s, literal use from 1610).
- Any departure from the literal use of words is the figurative use of language.
- This has led to the very literal use of 'critical theory' as an umbrella term to describe any theory founded upon critique.
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