What is "made use"

Usage examples of "made use".

He then proceeded to inform her plainly that Jones was in bed with a wench, and made use of an expression too indelicate to be here inserted.

The allusion and metaphor we have here made use of, we must acknowledge to be infinitely too great for our occasion.

Those, in fact, who are at the distance of forty stages, do not, on account of the length of the journey, send the carcases, but only the skins, some dressed and others raw, to be made use of for the service of the army as his majesty may judge proper.

However, we have made use of the opportunity to learn the predominant language of your planet.

Diodorus, perceiving this contradiction, made use of the probability of the two first to prove that nothing is possible which neither is nor will be true.

I have set these matters in a clearer light in the present edition by giving a more precise meaning to my expression: and in most places where I have made use of the word virtue I have taken care to add the term political.

Several times they made use of the inclined planes, which certain internal levers placed obliquely to the water-line.

The boats sent down the lower Yenisei must by this time have reached Krasnoiarsk and been made use of.

As she spoke she held out her hand to him, and when he took it she made use of his to help herself up from her stool, and - when or how it came about, Curdie could not tell - the same instant she stood before him a tall, strong woman - plainly very old, but as grand as she was old, and only rather severe-looking.

Afterwards, men made use of the same word metaphorically, for the knowledge of their own secret facts, and secret thoughts.

I could have almost kissed her for one expression she made use of.

Some of his hair, his teeth, and the basin he made use of, are still preserved, and shown with much ceremony.

Hence Rufus, for the most part, did discourage them, and made use of that as a criterion of the ingenuous and disingenuous.

And yet, hath she not made use even of these in the most becoming manner possibly?

This was the most splendid deed of his life, at least his father said so, the only one in which he had shown--guess what for, my friend, I will not pen the cynical word made use of by his father.