Sentence examples for incidental tools from inspiring English sources

Canoes, houses, domestic utensils, weapons, religious sculpture, and a host of other incidental tools were fashioned from wood with stone or shell adzes; stone-flake knives; files made of coral, sea urchin, or rough stone; and drills of bone, stone, or shell.

Advocates of microstamping say it offers advantages over ballistic analysis, which has been used for more than a century and depends on matching incidental tool marks on bullets and cartridge casings to show that a particular weapon was used.

We chose to focus the analysis during this period because it corresponded to the growing season when most prescribed fire was applied and prescribed fire may be a useful management tool to reduce incidental encounters between bobcats and prey species (e.g., Jones et al. 2004).

What may seem like an incidental detail is actually a crucial tool for understanding the artist's images: "Choosing greyness has been one of the major decisions regarding this project," Zgierska explains to Creators.

The Swinburne and its unlovely annex are always entirely convincing places, and there is much incidental pleasure in learning about the place — the tools, the dust coats, the fume cupboard, the elaborate hierarchies.

That such a tool is pleasing to the eye is incidental; the real worth of the smoothing lay in the even cutting edge, superior strength, and better handling.

Nevertheless, PAN showed several additional incidental findings showing its important value being a basic diagnostic tool, also in preventive dentistry [32, 33].

However, ethical questions surrounding the disclosure of incidental findings (IFs) persist, as NGS and other novel genomic technologies become the preferred tool for clinical genetic testing.

MRI is increasingly used as a research tool with the inclusion of "normal" control subjects, raising ethical issues when significant incidental abnormalities are found on research MRIs.

Incidental examination of this area carries a minimal cost and appears beneficial as a screening tool for carotid disease, although definitive testing must follow.

StreetPass is used as a tool to advance in a game – the fact you're meeting other people is incidental and abuse is therefore less likely.