The phrase "found wide use" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically means that something has been used or adopted by many people. Example: The new technology has found wide use in the medical field, revolutionizing the way doctors diagnose and treat patients.
The Wharton Models found wide use in forecasting gross national product, exports, investment, and consumption.
He published a number of textbooks and study helps for the teaching of Hebrew, which found wide use.
His How Does a Poem Mean? (1960; rev. ed., with Miller Williams, 1975) found wide use as a poetry textbook in high schools and colleges.
The mechanical typewriter finally found wide use after World War I. Today its electronic variant, the computer video terminal, is used pervasively to record original text.
An obituary yesterday about Shiing-Shen Chern, a mathematician whose discoveries about geometric surfaces found wide use in physics as well, misstated the duration of his marriage to Shih-ning Chern.
Cars fueled by compressed natural gas have been available intermittently in the United States for decades, and have found wide use in fleets, but have never attracted much consumer interest.
Gold wire has found wide uses in brocades and ornamentation of other materials.
Although bronze, and later iron, became the preferred material for weapons and tools, copper found wide uses in such wares as cooking vessels, household utensils, mirrors, and ornaments.
While bimetallic NPs have found wide uses in chemical catalysis, 3 nothing is known about their biological properties.
Ionic liquids find wide use in electrochemistry, and their usefulness in accelerating the reaction rate of redox reactions is well known (Welton 2004; Xiaodong et al. 2008; Afsanch et al. 2006; Fabio and Cinzia 2010; Singh et al. 2008).
