Sentence examples for be pressed into use from inspiring English sources

That said, the wand has yet to be pressed into use, leading a largely symbolic or decorative existence on their coffee table.

The Traction was agile, low-slung and spacious, and many would be pressed into use by la resistance, their doors hand-lettered with the white "FFI" of the French Free Army.

Over the years, many of the estate's buildings would be pressed into use as classrooms and residences for teachers.

Mundane objects are pressed into use to suggest the trappings of magic to variable effect.

Over the past five weeks, Grenadian children were forced to stay away from classes because their schools were either extensively damaged by Hurricane Ivan, or were pressed into use as shelters for those who had lost their homes during the storm.

Fentanyl powder can be pressed into counterfeit pills or used as a cheap way to cut drugs, such as heroin.

Prototype Global Hawks were pressed into wartime use over Afghanistan in 2002 and over Iraq as early as 2003.

The resulting nanocomposite obtained in powder form has been pressed into tablets using various compression pressures (28 400 MPa).

Samples were pressed into pellets using paraffin and cellulose/ N-butyl-methacrylate. Standards were prepared by spiking synthetic ZnO/Fe2O3 matrix (1 1) with multi-element solution standards and Rh as an internal standard.

The invasion of Europe was such a major undertaking, he said, that many pieces of equipment were pressed into duty for uses for which they were never intended.

In South Korea, whose citizens were pressed into forced labor and used as sex slaves by the tens of thousands by Japan during the 35 years of colonial rule that ended in 1945, reconciliation with Japan has only recently begun, and remains fragile.