Sentence examples for useful device for from inspiring English sources

The grid is a useful device for differentiation.

Now, he said, he sees it as a useful device for weaving horrifying historical details into the story line.

It was a useful device for expressing Jacobite or anti-Jacobite sympathies with either a Stuart or a Hanover coin.

Mashed potatoes are a particularly useful device for evil parents who want to trick their children into eating veggies -- green beans, say, or broccoli.

Jamie's friendship with Benjamin Edes, printer of The Boston Gazette, is a useful device for slipping in developments like reports of redcoats showing up on Boston Common and of debate on the Stamp Act in the English Parliament.

To imagine oneself exploring the mazy paths of a village of eccentric geniuses — or drifting, Walter Benjamin style, through a crowded Parisian arcade — is a useful device for any reader of "Baudelaire" and the rest of Calasso's sometimes daunting œuvre.

Dewatering electrolysers are useful devices for efficiently reducing the water content of sewage sludge to <60%.

Stent grafts are increasingly recognized as useful devices for endovascular repair of aortic aneurysms and other vascular diseases.

3D printers are useful devices for all kinds of reasons, but most have a critical weakness: they simply take a long time to actually make anything.

Microfluidic chips are useful devices for cell culture that allow cell growth under highly controlled conditions, as is required for production of therapeutic recombinant proteins.

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are very useful devices for the development of real-time systems, due to their flexibility, performance and reduced design costs.