Sentence examples for utility used to from inspiring English sources
Macro Express is a licensed macro utility used to record, edit and play back mouse and keyboard macros.
"The Story about Ping", a classic children's work that tells the story of a duck called Ping, has been the inspiration for much geek humour, because "ping" also happens to be the name of a software utility used to measure the degree of congestion on the Internet.
GPU, Inc., a Morristown, N.J.-based utility, used to own plants and buy whatever additional power it needed under contracts up to 30 years in length.
Another tool gaining incredible popularity is Twine, a visually-simple utility used to develop text games.
The Court has also invalidated a rule requiring a regulated utility to include a consumer watchdog's newsletter in the envelope the utility used to bill its customers.
The NTPC, India's largest utility, used to get nearly all of its electricity from coal but now is mandated by the government to bundle renewables into its mix.
The laptop I am writing this on is not powered by renewable energy but by whatever my local utility uses to power the grid.
Q. Utilities used to be consistent payers of dividends.
"Electric utilities used to be required to hold 15percentt reserve capacity, but this inventory has been wiped out," he said.
"Utilities used to be a widows-and-orphans kind of investment," said Jeffrey Molitor, director of portfolio review at Vanguard.
Doesn't that mean that investors need to do at least some homework before considering an investment? A. Utilities used to be all the same.
