Sentence examples for could be put to use from inspiring English sources

Hollywood realized that this passivity could be put to use.

Ideas had value only insofar as they could be put to use.

This same array could be put to use scrubbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

They are properties that could be put to use in a wide range of consumer products.

Serendipitously, Bhatia's lab was already working on nanoparticles that could be put to use detecting cancer biomarkers.

Some 20 years ago geologists figured out that the seismograph could be put to use in locating oil fields.

Much snow removal equipment was buried and had to be dug out before it could be put to use.

Any of those tools conceivably could be put to use to help the weapons inspectors, one official said.

Both of the predictions were very accurate and indicate that an inventor is perhaps the best judge as to how their inventions could be put to use.

His new machine, called the Heath Robinson, worked well enough to show that his concept could be put to use, but still had a few problems.

But a snag has recently developed: the building occupies riverfront real estate, which its owner has realized could be put to use much more profitably as residential.