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[ US /ˈjuʒəwəɫ, ˈjuʒuəɫ/ ]
[ UK /jˈuːʒuːə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure
    the usual summer heat
    the child's usual bedtime
    came at the usual time
    grew the usual vegetables
  2. commonly encountered
    a common (or familiar) complaint
    the usual greeting

How To Use usual In A Sentence

  • The buildings are usually gabled, with rows of tiles along the ridges of the roofs.
  • If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
  • He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
  • It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
  • Such football titbits always float to the surface on third-round day which remains the best, most hectic, interesting and fun day of the season - and this one was even more frenetic than usual.
  • A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.
  • It would not be so bad if these tests were actually based on science or some objective measure but they are usually exercises in bureaucratic futility. Barack Obama Elected President of the United States | One Year Later...What's Changed?
  • According to what I read in a couple of dictionaries, "gild" means to decorate the outside of something, usually unnecessarily. Untwisted Vortex
  • I usually sqirt a drop or two on the front and back of my boots, and a few drops on a wick around the stand. i never used the buck pee though. i have used a couple of tarsal glands from a buck that my friend killed. had small buck circle the tree i hung it from a couple times. When to use What deer pee?
  • With cold type, the galley proof is the first proof, usually a photocopy.
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