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Meaning useful meaning
What does useful mean?
useful
Synonyms useful synonyms
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Topics useful topics
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What words describe something that is useful?
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What words refer to something being useful even though it doesn't seem to be?
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What words describe something that is valued as good?
Examples useful examples
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Simple sentences
This knife was very useful to me.
A cow is a useful animal.
Speaking English is useful.
This book is much more useful than that one.
Iron is much more useful than gold.
The horse is a very useful animal.
Iron is a very useful metal.
Iron is a useful metal.
None of those books are useful.
Iron is more useful than it is beautiful.
Iron is more useful than gold.
For certain tasks, my computer can be very useful.
This book could be useful to you.
This phrasebook is very useful to me.
My computer has got to be useful for something.
The only useful answers are those that raise new questions.
Rocks and minerals are useful for us in many ways.
Salt is a useful substance.
It goes without saying that camels are very useful in the Middle East.
The helicopter is so useful that someday it may take the place of cars and trains.
That's not a useful piece of information.
That's a useful piece of information.
That is a useful piece of information.
I want to buy this book not because it is cheap, but because it is useful.
The tape recorder is a useful aid to teaching.
The information is useful to a great many people.
The dictionary is useful and, what is more, not expensive.
This is very useful.
Movie subtitles
Okay, but you're right about this, actually, it has a lot of dry goods on it, it actually could be useful for my earthquake kit, - so I will keep this.
It would be useful if we knew for certain.
Can I be useful to you, Countess?
They never taught us anything really useful like how to light a cigarette in the wind or make a fire out of wet wood. or bayonet a man in the belly instead of the ribs where it gets jammed.
Make yourself useful!
I've got a crazy idea that I might help you to be a useful person.
Now, look here, come and make yourself useful and put this table on its feet.
Yeah, I guess maybe a sailboat would be more useful.
I think you can be very useful.
Perhaps it would be useful if you told the court in your own words the events of April 28th last year.
Well, did any of these masterminds have anything useful to offer?
Yes. A very useful one.
I thought with your permission and while I'm waiting for these porters I'd like to organise classes for the children in the valley and teach them something practical and something useful.
This may be useful.
It could be useful.
I need to do something useful, exciting, unique.
He may continue to be very, very useful to us.
The marquis's orders are that you are to make yourself useful around here.
Make yourself useful in the kitchen, Rawlins.
Make yourself useful for once and bring in the bags.
Having been a queen, I realize how useful they are to consolidate power.
It proved to be useful in this case.
That would be useful to the company that clothes and feeds them and sends their children to college so they can be dumbbells like their parents.
Uh, I. just think that you would probably be more useful outside a convent than in.
Somehow, to be useful in the world.
It has no authority to arrest humans but it can investigate, so I think it'd be useful to you.
Make yourself useful and clean the yard.
I thought..that my friends could be useful.
At least useful.
They'll at least take him from the gutter and teach him a useful trade.
Teach him a useful trade, will it?
Taught him a useful trade, didn't it? It'll teach this kid one, too.
How nobly he grew in grace and became a useful member.
Perhaps you could make yourself useful to Mr. De Winter if he wants anything done.
When I saw the money in the old man's hand, I thought it would be useful.
And you may find this useful.
Not much fun. As dad says, it can be useful to rest one's talents.
News and current affairs
This is neither a correct description nor a useful terminology for terrorist acts, which are more correctly described as criminal.
IMF accounting frameworks, rather than providing useful signals to the market, provide distorted information that exacerbates a troubled country's problems.
But, while these older institutions have proven enormously useful, they are typically quite constrained.
Terrorists might buy malware from criminals, and governments might find it useful to hide behind both.
Such bonds can be useful, even necessary, in times of war.
From bin Laden's point of view, Bush's policies were more useful for his efforts to recruit supporters than Kerry's might have been.
To be sure, the mass media can be useful as a provider of information, education, entertainment, and even political awareness.
And, as President Barack Obama has said, the Libyan people must not be deprived of full ownership of their struggle for freedom, and Qaddafi must not be given a useful foil and scapegoat.
But which measures are appropriate and genuinely useful?
Many live harmlessly in our bodies and perform useful functions.
After three years of huge, crisis-driven exchange-rate swings, it is useful to take stock both of currency values and of the exchange-rate system as a whole.
Memories of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and Japanese aggression in the 1930's are politically useful and fit within a larger theme of Chinese victimization by imperialist forces.
LONDON - Individual elections do not always enhance democracy - a useful reminder that the ballot box is only one part, albeit a central one, in any free, plural society.
It is possible that at some point the Arabs will agree among themselves that the creation of a Palestinian state that claims to be committed to peaceful coexistence with Israel will be a useful tactic.
More borrowed growth - the Keynesian formula - may create the illusion of normalcy, and may be useful in the immediate aftermath of a deep crisis to calm a panic, but it is no solution to a fundamental growth problem.
We are still useful.
It would also be useful to explain that immigration is necessary for prosperity and growth in almost all OECD countries.
One thing to be said for monarchs is that they provide people with a sense of continuity, which can be useful in times of crisis or radical change.
A Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean and the Middle East (CSCM) could quickly become a useful instrument for promoting this comprehensive approach to security and development.
One great advantage of SDRs is that they permit the international creation of money, which is particularly useful at times like the present.
Of course, comparing education across countries is not easy, but PISA remains the most useful tool yet developed for policymakers attempting to improve their national education systems.
The UN has been useful as a forum for adopting standards, but its machinery for seeking compliance with those standards is weak and has been badly compromised over the years by its failure to address grotesque abuses.
What might work for a time in a small city-state can hardly be a useful model for larger, more complex societies.