How to Use usage in a Sentence

usage

noun

• Seat belt usage in the state is now mandatory.
• Restaurant dishes must be able to withstand rough usage.
• I came across an uncommon usage I'd like to discuss with you.
• This word occurs in casual usage.
• The games against the Giants — even with Seattle the usage went up.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
• That’s the highest usage rate Butler has finished a game with since a Dec. 16 win over the Chicago Bulls.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2024
• Read the product label and follow all the usage guidelines.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The undisclosed usage of AI will become the lip-syncing scandal of the future.
  — Gideon Kimbrell, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2023
• Since Christmas, that clutch-time usage has dipped to eight percent.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 26 Jan. 2024
• With the push of a button and about five minutes of usage five times a week, your skin should look and feel refreshed within weeks.
  — Claire Harmeyer, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
• Below are five of their responses to the question: What does the smartphone, and our usage of the smartphone, look like in 10 years?
  — WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• To increase usage of statins, Pollock said changing the perception of the drug is key.
  — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 11 Dec. 2023
• The region is the driest it’s been in 1,200 years, which has forced dramatic cuts to water usage.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023
• That’s yet another reason to be open with your child about its usage.
  — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 14 Sep. 2023
• Hiya says that amount stands to go up as the usage of generative AI gains traction.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Feb. 2024
• The same can be said for X, formerly known as Twitter, which has seen usage drop from 33% to 20% over the same time period.
  — Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Over the last few weeks, usage of red alert apps has exploded both within Israel and abroad.
  — Bella Aldrete, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• Sill also grew up in an abusive home, and turned to a life of crime and drug usage as an escape mechanism.
  — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
• Our goal is to further increase usage and the user base of Joyn with double-digit growth rates per year.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024
• The transfer portal has closed for the winter, and Louisville football was — once again — successful in its usage.
  — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2024
• But as the drug enters the mainstream of American social life, the rules surrounding its usage can be, well, hazy.
  — Sridhar Pappu, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• The second stage seeks to reduce daily per capita water usage by 15% and the third stage aims for a 20% reduction.
  — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
• For TikTok, the figure will be if usage on the app goes down if users get frustrated with less music available.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
• The app’s average usage time also fell from 21 minutes to 6 minutes over the same timeframe.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 19 July 2023
• In the meantime, Howard and a small group of hikers are installing temporary signs along the trail to advertise and track trail usage this summer.
  — Alysa Guffey, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
• Still, in low usage, IU’s 2-3 zone has shown some effectiveness.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2024
• Another app perk is being able to adjust the brightness and usage of the monitor’s LED lights.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
• Apple is promising the same multithreaded performance on the M3 as the M1 at half the power usage.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 31 Oct. 2023
• Governments in countries such as Poland and Hungary bristle over E.U. strictures on the usage of coal.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
• About last night Monday night’s contest came with some criticism of Cora and his bullpen usage.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024