What is "made use of"

Usage examples of "made use of".

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.

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.

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.

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.

He did not pretend, like a certain learned pundit, to speak the two thousand languages and four thousand idioms made use of in different parts of the globe, but he did know all the more important ones.

They had a crude social organization, rough stone artifacts, and even made use of the larger animals that were now being killed as they fled in panic.

The plant itself grows, and is made use of as a dye-stuff in almost every part of India.

This morning, in my chamber of magic, I made use of my clairvoyant powers and I learned much.

I have but given good counsel in peril, and made use of the speed of Shadowfax.

Vainly I consulted the stars and made use of geomancy and necromancy.

Neither had I ever before this time traveled for any space in that fashion, for the nomads had made use of their sleds, walking and riding in turn when they were on a long trek.

I gave her my arm to clutch tight, and as I did so made use of my scanning perception to take a reading on herself and her infant.