Sentence examples for downright useful from inspiring English sources

If it could, it'd go from a good gag gift to downright useful and invaluable tool for keeping yourself safe.

As downright useful as Stat could be for streamlining hospital operations, bringing quick and timely medical transport to the masses is something really worth keeping an eye out for.

Some of SkyMall's products look downright useful -- and saying they could change your life might not be a stretch.

Now, Mr. Druse, the horticulturist, photographer and writer, has combined his talents in a new book that is not only useful but downright inspiring: "Making More Plants: The Science, Art and Joy of Propagation" actually made me realize I could start an orchard from a dozen peaches -- given the right variety, the right treatment and patience.

Several of these job-matching programmes are available on the Web, and they range from quite useful to downright bizarre.

In fact, if all we do is hate on fat and wish it away, we might miss out on its useful (and downright cool) characteristics!

This finding suggests that the majority of possible colored motifs are not useful or downright detrimental, but a handful of them are so useful that they appear between 2 and 60 times as often as in an average randomly colored network.

What you're left with is a mish-mash of pre-installed applications that range from quasi-useful to downright unrecognizable.

The ones that can figure out what will be deemed useful, superfluous or downright ridiculous will win.

And listen to someone who doesn't think the way we do, we may learn something that could be useful, as well as something downright interesting.

Many of the interviews were downright enlightening and honest (hats off to the author for locating receptive interviewees), while others were merely useful.