Sentence examples for a useful device from inspiring English sources

Sure, for those folks who don't want a BlackBerry the Peek is a useful device, but I have to wonder who actually uses these things.

The grid is a useful device for differentiation.

Honest assessments, he said, "might be a useful device".

The "we" felt comfortable to me when I started out, and it was a useful device.

How the motion might be harnessed for a useful device is not at all clear.

At times such as these we find a useful device is "What we know – and what we don't".

"The irony in Mad was a useful device to screen and protect oneself from a deadening mass culture.

Now, he said, he sees it as a useful device for weaving horrifying historical details into the story line.

It was a useful device for expressing Jacobite or anti-Jacobite sympathies with either a Stuart or a Hanover coin.

Their turbulent relationship reflects and amplifies social change and serves as a useful device in personalising the tempo of the times.

It may lack the resonance of Martin Luther King but Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers Associationn, has perhaps found a useful device in fighting racism.