Example sentences for: useful

How can you use “useful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The hand-held scanner I have used is very tricky and sensitive, and, as the Writer's Guide admonishes, creates as many problems as it solves; but I am going to pursue the subject nonetheless, hoping that a useful balance might be struck in which less time is spent correcting than in initial keyboarding plus correcting.

  • S. typhimurium strains also displayed some differences from the sequenced strain, an indication that the Biolog™ PM1 and PM3 system might be useful in epidemiology and evolutionary studies.

  • It is, in general, difficult to predict death in a particular patient because of individual variations and since "we do not know the exact borderline between life and death" [ 27 ] . To a certain extent the point in time to accept dying - at least in medical institutions - depends on empirically based decisions to abstain from potentially life-sustaining interventions e.g. pharmacological, technical or other artificial support of organ function "to prevent death" at least for limited moments of time [ 28 29 ] . In our internal guidelines we grouped patients according to the staging system of Jonen-Thielemann into rehabilitative, preterminal, terminal and final phases [ 30 ] . With relation to intentions of care, life expectancy according to the progress of disease and empirical statistics, consideration on perhaps burdensome diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and communication strategies with patients and proxies a systematic staging of patients in palliative care on expected outcome seems to be useful.

  • General dictionaries give etymologies, albeit brief ones, of most of the words they list and fulfill a useful, if limited function.

  • Inflation is supposed to be a deadly poison, not a useful medicine.


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