Sentence examples for used to devote from inspiring English sources

The most delicious legacy of the man was his gaffes, to which the satirical magazine Private Eye used to devote a regular column.

By the end, he's a very different lad from the one who used to devote his professional energies to writing about who's doing what to Lindsay Lohan.

Beecroft: I used to devote part of the day to massage or yoga, but now there's just so much to do.

MORE as a sort of public service than anything else, The Economist used to devote space every now and then to writing about the Democratic Party of Japan.

Mr Brown hopes that departments with a fixed three-year budget will devote the energy to spending it well that they used to devote to increasing it.

Marc Camoletti's French farce, which ran in London for much of the 60s, has not merely been revived - it has been buffed up, re-polished and given the kind of dream cast which the National Theatre used to devote to Feydeau.

The people in charge are themselves often young and inexperienced in the art of management, they say, and are so used to devoting all their energies to relieving the stresses and strains of fast growth that they do not know how to cope with decline gracefully.

Gossip coverage that used to be devoted primarily to movie stars now encompasses politicians and business people.

Meanwhile, the sections that used to be devoted to Judaica and Jewish ethnography are now merged into "Jewish Art and Life," connecting the secular with the religious.

Outside spending in general has grown massively in recent years, and is on track to hit another record this year (see chart).Almost all that money goes toward negative advertisements, notes Mr Corrado, and whereas almost all of it used to be devoted to the general election, some is now seeping into primaries.

Knowing now how hollow all that step-right-up must-see-TV bluster was, I shudder to remember the editorial hype that used to be devoted to hotness — the legitimate-seeming magazines that existed to bully readers with hot-not lists and all the movies, books, CDs and even political scoops that we were supposed to pony up for this minute, on pain of social extinction.