Sentence examples for some practical uses from inspiring English sources

Though the wear process is generally thought of as harmful, and in most practical situations is so, it has some practical uses as well.

Besides communication, the Cybiko does have some practical uses.

I guess I can think of some practical uses, but it's still a little bit Skymall.

Certainly speech technology is remarkable, and there will be some practical uses, like dictation and interfacing on the telephone.

Sony's take on robots is that they will initially be cute companions (Aibo means "companion"), with some practical uses possible down the road.

While I'm sure the Padzilla has some practical uses (they'd give your local news station a bit of pizazz, for one), the wow factor alone is enough to make it tempting.

Provided it has some practical use, it covers an underlying idea or concept, although it does not mean the holder has a monopoly on a given process, idea or invention.

If this is just a scheme to get Newt out of the house and off holding placards on the streets of Medellin and Kandahar and Kinshasa and Melbourne and everywhere in between, it might have some practical use.

Giving private places to the difficult, often-excluded pupils that the state sector has to deal with all the time would actually be of some practical use and would operate as an interesting test case to see how effective private education would be in helping kids who are not keen on learning.

The cylindrical shape even has some practical use with the central tower providing a tunnel of airflow powered by a fan at the top of the tower – avoiding the need for multiple heat-sinks by simultaneously cooling the three cores packed around this central spot.

The motive for the creation of any work of art is inevitably complex, in Africa as elsewhere, and the fact that most of the sculpted artifacts known from Africa were made with some practical use in mind (whether for ritual or other purposes) does not mean that they could not simultaneously be valued as sources of aesthetic pleasure.