Sentence examples for been used for something from inspiring English sources

It could've been used for something, but nothing happened".

Mr. Alexander declared that reconciliation has "never been used for something like this".

Mr. Krugman pointed out Senator Alexander's shocking "fibs" on both the cost of premiums and the process of reconciliation, which Senator Alexander claimed had "never been used for something like this".

The linguist Bert Vaux conducted an online survey of American dialects from 2000 to 2005, and he included this question: "What do you call paper that has already been used for something or is otherwise imperfect?" More than 10,000 people responded, and the overall results were evenly split, with about 31 percent saying scratch paper and an equal number saying scrap paper.

But like many other sites that were meant to do one thing, they've been used for something entirely different.

Everything growing so abundantly in this fertile land is used for something, Lan told us: leaves for salads and soups, water hyacinth leaves for household goods, banana stems for rope, and fruit, of course.

That time could, in principle, be used for something else.

"It can't be used for something like a judicial record center".

They're either going to be used for something or they're not," Ms. Christensen said.

But that power needs to be used for something other than perpetual re-election.

Yes, it's ingenious, but the real revolution comes when the underlying technology is used for something altogether new.