Synonym: busy, engaged, in use. Similar words: bonus, unusual, minute, continue, aluminum, insinuate, continued, continuous. Meaning: adj. 1. (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) 2. currently being used.
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91. But were the large hydraulic wheels then in use capable of working powerful enough pumps, or relays of pumps?
92. This new book demystifies some of the computer language currently in use.
93. There is some residual radiation, indicating that atomic weapons were in use approximately five thousand years ago.
94. The mobile phone is constantly in use as he checks, queries and informs staff.
95. Viewfinders also commonly contain displays of useful information such as the state of the battery and the mode of operation in use.
96. The centre will be closed until Wednesday and it could be a fortnight before the swimming pool is in use again.
97. A wide range of information technologies are in use producing substantial amounts of data.
98. This is because of continued improvements in fuel economy performance and also due to growth in use of diesel-engined cars.
99. In use,(www.Sentencedict.com) the card acts just like a disk drive but it responds instantaneously.
100. It exists only in use and may be imparted and acquired through apprenticeship and practice.
101. With the advent of the new national curriculum, these materials should be in use in every science classroom.
102. The actual strength of each type very rarely reflected this establishment - at one stage no less than forty B.2s were in use!
103. Obviously, sleeping pills are not harmless; they are drugs that require caution and care in use.
104. Hence a set of terms emerged for describing these different patterns, and this set of terms is still in use today.
105. It may be that the product would be shown off to best advantage in use.
106. The mine was in use for 60 years, but played out and shut down in 1943.
107. Several different types of tabular ledger are in use, but always the basic principle is the same.
108. Additionally, some of the chairs in use at workstations are not adjustable, and will require replacement.
109. The cups had to be locked up when not in use, lest some one without security clearance glimpse the classified design.
110. It is interesting to note that electric vehicles built in 1920 were still in use in the 1950s.
111. If the message Can not rename file appears, you have chosen a filename which is already in use.
112. Share is the percentage of those televisions in use that are tuned to a given show.
113. The old lane was in use down to comparatively recent times as a through road from Northampton to Banbury.
114. Nowadays thousands of different types of thermometer in use in science and industry are based on the principles he laid down.
115. It was a speed equivalent to that of the fastest armoured land vehicle in use in the Empire.
116. For instance in use at Edinburgh Zoo there is a cement ant hill for chimpanzees which was developed to enrich their environment.
117. They want to know whether the new umbrella qualification could be in use as early as 2001.
118. There was a brazier newly in use, and still smoking a little.
119. Very soon afterwards, the archdiocese withdrew its plans and the church thankfully continues in use.
120. Concepts in Use Basic vocabulary, basic structures, short passages, and straight forward messages.
More similar words: bonus, unusual, minute, continue, aluminum, insinuate, continued, continuous, diminutive, continuing.