It had the appearance of a well-worn and much-used path.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak 2250 AD]

Profiling is a valid and much-used criminal justice tool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lionel: Gatesgate: They've All Got It Wrong.] Reference

Yep, the much-used phrase at the time was "wag the dog".    From Wordnik.com.  [Full Text Of Letter From Bill Clinton Lawyer To ABC Obtained] Reference

I stood once again on this much-used grave and felt downward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grave Surprise]

Dripping seems to be a much-used technique in the abstract world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

(Even Jews have a hard time translating that much-used Yiddish word.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Lanny Davis: Rahm] Reference

What I have seen over time -- I hate to use -- a much-used buzzword is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussion At Race Advisory Board Meeting] Reference

He came out with a dirty, much-used map, which he spread out on his knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Go Off To Camp]

“The lodge must act as one man,” he said, quoting a much-used form of words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

"Mike, this is Jimmy," Tom Barlow said, initiating a prearranged and much-used lie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear and the Dragon]

The orthography of this much-used epithet, which is not given, we believe, in any English or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

The second edition of Pearson's much-used grade 10 Social Studies text is about to be published.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons] Reference

Slowly, unbearably slowly, she packs an oily, much-used glass stem, and taps the excess into the bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Crack In Paris: EXCLUSIVE Unpublished Excerpt From Bill Clegg's 'Portrait Of An Addict As A Young Man'] Reference

What a difference a coat of paint makes is a much-used cliche, but it gets me out of bed each morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Brilliant Career] Reference

Fango-mud, for instance, which was mentioned in the last chapter, is a much-used remedy against rheumatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

The much-used bride is to be largely rewarded and when the dispenser is Edith Wharton the loot will be lavish, and banal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Wharton in New York] Reference

Why was I so comforted by the image of angels around Colby, but irritated by the idea of that as a much-used label, a description?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Walker: Epilepsy: A Family Love Story] Reference

I opened the box and found the old treasures undisturbed, looking more battered than I'd thought, with rust on the much-used wheels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Money]

Mr. Smallwood is proposing to take a still useful and much-used stadium, and make of it a "useless monument" that its makers disavowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Um, Let's Not Do That] Reference

When she offered me the couch, she insisted that it came with my much-used love seat and a chair that Chienne likes much more than I do.    From Wordnik.com.  [What? Where? Who?] Reference

TorrentFreak pointed out that the much-used uTorrent has hit 2.0 Beta with some interesting changes for resource use on public trackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [UFies.org: Software Archives] Reference

All of it, from the wooden floor to the furniture to the walls, was clean and polished and in good condition, though obviously much-used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take A Thief]

Another much-used form of the story may be found in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference

FairPlay, you'll remember, is the oft-maligned (yet still much-used).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Reference

Name five much-used food fishes of the sea, and five fresh-water food-fishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts] Reference

He says setting up templates for much-used data analysis projects has been very effective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

In our tests, even a much-used system with various added software packages was upgraded without problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [LXer Linux News] Reference

The best that can be said of two of them, is that they were a dirty gray, about the color of a much-used wash-rag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China] Reference

She crept about the house, and kissed the chair he had sat in, and every much-used place and thing of the departed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Simpleton] Reference

The expression "it's like Beirut" is a much-used comparison for everything from violent riots to a teenager's bedroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

The Little People Farm isn't perfect,, and could use a few improvements, but overall is a very nice, and much-used toy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

As a crowning hardship, Callender repented of his bargain and withdrew the much-used and treasured hundred-dollar bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Frohman: Manager and Man] Reference

After a while his hands involuntarily found their way to the table drawer, from which he pulled out a much-used copy-book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virgin Soil] Reference

They see his latest flourish of the corporation's much-used begging bowl as disingenuous considering how deeply he has raided.    From Wordnik.com.  [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference

Green Team members donate thousands of hours to provide critical care for the much-used park located at Main and Plymouth Streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brownstoner] Reference

In the large blank spaces in the corners are placed special, original designs that have some features of the much-used "feather" pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them] Reference