utebantur

utebantur is a Latin form of utor, meaning “use, employ (+abl.)”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect passive indicative.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.24.4: Quibus rebus nostri perterriti atque huius omnino generis pugnae imperiti, non eadem alacritate ac studio quo in pedestribus uti proeliis consuerant utebantur.

All forms of utor (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.