usefully

Example Sentences

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In its willingness to usefully engage with our everyday ugliness, “The Drama” is the boldest mainstream American film in years.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Of course, the suggestion was unserious but it usefully if frontally undressed a reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Paradoxically, to the extent the law can be usefully deployed as a tactic, the 14th Amendment itself is a tactical enterprise that exists to protect us from tyranny.

From Slate • Jan. 19, 2024

The scientists demonstrate how observations of the rate of decrease of the Sun's dipole magnetic field can be usefully combined with sunspot observations to predict when the ongoing cycle would peak.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

She begins one sentence: 'Although I have no idea how I shall usefully fill the remainder of my life .

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro