Sentence examples for useful out of from inspiring English sources

So even if the kids aren't really getting anything approximating a meaningful education, Seth Greenberg assures us that they've still gotten something useful out of college because he taught them where to put their fork on a place mat (listen to the clip, you'll see what I am talking about).

The storms of life offer an opportunity to respond in one of three ways to personal tragedy or failure: you can give up, you can try to cope using whatever dulls the pain, or you can grow and create something useful out of your experience or loss.

"I thought I could make something useful out of something ill-considered," he told a friend.

These documents are useful out of all proportion to the space they occupy in "Family Business," providing balance between public and private voices.

"The other thing is, you've undermined your ability to get something useful out of it anyway if you've lost your virginity, so to speak, by appearing to cave in to domestic protectionist pressures".

The Romans, after 80 years of trying to get something useful out of Scotland, gave it up as a bad job and nicknamed its inhabitants Brittunculi – "nasty little Britons".

It reprints useful, out-of-the-way vampire literature, but my favourite feature of the book is a table (you have to turn the book sideways) that Frayling calls "A Vampire Mosaic".

From these pages, you can ferret out good sources for plants as well as useful out-of-print books, notably Ruth Stout's smart, influential writing about the organic gardening method she developed in the 1950s.

All politicians, and even hamburger empires, like to quote MLK's "I have a Dream" speech, selecting two or three useful, out-of-context quotes designed to be inoffensive to consumers and white people who believe they live in a meritocracy.

But it doesn't have to, because unlike Twitter, FriendFeed is useful right out-of-the-box (who really uses twitter.com anymore?).

In addition, the general willingness to throw away potential collectibles and useful but out-of-style items signifies a confident economy.