Sentence examples for be getting used as from inspiring English sources

In some cases, patents appear to be getting used as a resource of last resort for companies with bigger, more dire financial problems.

It will also be used to extend the variety of ways that the money can be paid out: one other big issue for people sending money to family back home is the concern that it may not be getting used as intended, and so creating more channels for specific payments — say, for utility bills or education fees — is one way of solving that problem.

We have all this futuristic technology at our disposal, endowing us with capabilities that would have seemed fantastical in 1972, but it is getting used as a time machine to transport us into yesterday, or to shuffle and share pop-cult detritus from long ago.

Yes, some of that has yet to convert into profit, but for the mobile world, where handsets are getting used as ever-more central, always-present tools for doing everything, mapping and location innovations and functionality remain a land grab.

Mr. McCartney must be getting used to this, as he outlives many of the places he played in his 20s.

It's an odd sort of duty, but two years into his post-Homeland celebrity, the 42-year-old is getting used to it, as well as to furtive stares in public places.

Instead he and Mr. Rudder are getting used to roles as indie musicians, professional but not self-important.

Now, she adds, he is getting used to life as a cereal man.

Lately, we've been getting used to AIs as bodiless super brains a la Samantha from Her or Siri.

Anything less than six days was disruptive – I'd have to leave as soon as they were getting used to having me around.

Three years later and I am getting used to my role as a landlady.