Sentence examples for modern uses from inspiring English sources

It's okay to adapt old buildings to modern uses.

Its modern uses are for flavouring meats, fish, vegetables, salads, sweets, and such liqueurs as absinthe.

Its principal modern uses are in the fields of transportation, building, apportionment of land, and communications.

Modern uses of camphor have been as a plasticizer for cellulose nitrate and as an insect repellent, particularly for moths.

Modern uses are chiefly as an ingredient in dentifrices, perfumes, and stimulating tonics and as a protective agent in pharmaceuticals.

"It strikes me as an extremely good compromise between historic preservation and modern uses," Mr. Hoylman said.

Recently, though, the Ensemble Modern used antique pianolas fitted to respond to computerised commands.

This involves digging deep into political traditions, rescuing neglected currents and putting them to modern use.

Oil obtained from the seed is the chief modern use of the plant.

The invention of the blasting cap inaugurated the modern use of high explosives.

(The character is the basis for the modern use of the word mentor).