The phrase "indicate the use of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to when something is used to suggest or show something else. For example, "The blue paint indicated the use of a lighter color palette in the room."
Look for indicator words such as breaded, fried, toasted, or crispy which may indicate the use of flour or another type of breading.
Low cortisol levels could indicate the use of the steroid cortisone, which is permitted in some circumstances, with prior approval.
Iron plows and sickles indicate the use of animals in farming and more efficient harvesting methods.
A high red blood cell count can indicate the use of the banned performance-enhancing growth hormone EPO; it can also occur naturally.
Results indicate the use of double glazing units is not always required or the most favorable.
The program monitors athletes' blood profiles over time to find variations that could indicate the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
The Roosevelt managers make extravagant claims, and indicate the use of all possible means to stampede the Convention.
Several other examples indicate the use of multiple plots in a page, for instance the COSMOS observations and WCS Axis grid visualizations.
That included a treadmill typically used to run dogs to the point of exhaustion as training, along with syringes and medications that indicate the use of steroids and other illegal substances.
(The official name of the movement was coined by the critic Félix Fénéon; it was also known as pointillism or Divisionism, to indicate the use of separated strokes of pigment).
However, several eyewitnesses spoke of seeing planes and illuminating flares over the village, which if true would indicate the use of missiles from planes guided in by special forces teams on the ground rather than CIA-operated drones.
