Sentence examples for been put to some from inspiring English sources

These materials have been put to some good uses, particularly in small electronic devices.

But in the last three decades, as the city's economy has evolved, those incentives have been put to some very different uses.

The Pantone system spread from the advertising world to textiles to food science and has been put to some unexpected uses — like defining the color of a Ben & Jerry's brownie.

And really, while the image of the World Trade Center has been put to some dubious uses, this one seems quite right: as a reminder that the neighborhood around the Towers is vibrant and living and playing, and never could be taken off the map.

But while chlorine may have been put to some dastardly uses over the centuries, its reactivity has also been incredibly useful to humanity.

The computers have been put to some novel uses, including a controller for a robot boat that is piloting itself across the Atlantic Ocean.

The damned thing refuses to leave, after all, so it might as well be put to some use.

A distant cousin of MINT, basil can be put to some of the same uses in cocktails, but with predictably different results.

It is depressing to look at a picture of Michelle Obama wearing a head scarf on a visit to a mosque in Jakarta and wonder, first, whether the image is going to be put to some ludicrous, birther use.

Of the 328 churches made redundant since 2003, 52 were given to other denominations; another 28 were put to some ecclesiastical purpose; and in nine cases, new places of worship were built.

All the funds and emotions raised for that fight have to be put to some kind of use.Much rests on the 85-year-old shoulders of John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court's liberal stalwart.