In the past the word could be applied to any person or thing personified, not just a woman.

For the time being, at least, these words can properly be applied to the West itself.

He was writing there of moving on from the Lakers, but those words could be applied now.

The word is very commonly applied to matters of opinion.

Today, the word is applied to all crafts which use the paper.

There was no way the word "pretty" could be applied to this drive.

The word is usually applied to the room inside a temple.

This is regarded as the point at which the word "green" was first applied to politics in Europe.

Originally, the words were applied to such obvious forms as the human body.

The word was applied to the most important forest produce, that of the oak.