use

Use this knife to slice the bread.

I used the money they allotted me.

You never cared about me; you just used me!

He uses cocaine. I have never used drugs.

Richard began experimenting with cocaine last year; now he uses almost every day.

I could use a drink. My car could use a new coat of paint.

It is not without some difficulty, that a man born in society can form an idea of such savages, and their condition; and unless he has used himself to abstract thinking, he can hardly represent to himself such a state of simplicity, in which man can have so few desires, and no appetites roving beyond the immediate call of untaught nature […]

I use they/them pronouns.

Peter Pol, doctor in divinitie used to sit upon his mule, who as Monstrelet reporteth, was wont to ride up and downe the streets of Paris, ever sitting sideling, as women use.

to use an animal cruelly

They live together lovingly: For no Magistrate is either haughty or fearefull. Fathers they be called, and like fathers they use themselves.