Sentence examples for making themselves useful from inspiring English sources

Nurses help calm our spirits and uplift our dignity largely by making themselves useful to us.

The little boy and his sister not only reminisce over old photo albums with their father, they also get busy making themselves useful, vacuuming and doing dishes – "the things Mommy used to help with".

They might be just any couple of teenagers, filling their summer days by making themselves useful.

Beyond Kabul, Afghans depended on the good will of local power brokers — often the ones, like Gul Agha Shirzai, who became rich and powerful by making themselves useful to the American military.

Making themselves useful to the government is often the price that Chinese firms must pay for regulatory and financial blessings — even for the very right to exist as a business.

What's more, by making themselves useful sources of capital at a time of low growth in the west, the Qataris are also taking out insurance policies with powerful allies who regard them as important for the stability not only of the Middle East, but of western economies.

Granted leave to stay, they soon made themselves useful.

"And they have been forced to make themselves useful.

They stand around in meetings, not to make themselves useful but in case they hear something that might be useful to them.

From the perspective of the British, Isenberg notes, the colonies were where the "surplus poor"—convicts, debtors, and the like could go to make themselves useful.

Many do double-duty as tables; some even make themselves useful in the bathroom as a resting place for towels, magazines or other bath essentials.