(1) At least it felt like I was doing a proper job and something with a useful purpose.

(2) Here teenage boys and girls who dropped out after primary school learn useful skills.

(3) If he has picked up one, it would have been the most useful thing he has done all year.

(4) The new powers given to magistrates to deduct fines from wages and benefits are a useful tool.

(5) See, that old webcam you've got stuffed away in a box really can be useful after all.

(6) We think this is a useful service and we hope you like it too but it is only fair that we tell you how this is done.

(7) That's useful for us to know

(8) So many useful shops disappear, to be replaced by a retail outlet that is not welcomed by many of us.

(9) It does appear that she is capable of providing a useful service to her clients.

(10) This box will be useful for books

(11) The flight served no useful purpose at all: there was no need or compulsion to join it.

(12) There may be features not covered here that you would find useful in your own work, so try to explore it.

(13) He's a useful hurler

(14) I spoke to her after the forum to get her sense of how useful she thought the day had been.

(15) It means the building is going to be cared for and used and will serve a useful purpose for the community.

(16) This time we were able to persuade her that this was not a useful tactic and to amend the behaviour.

(17) How useful is it to tell overweight people or gamblers that they have a disease?

(18) To be useful for doing sth

(19) The answer may lie in some useful precedents going even as far back as the genesis of modern Israel.

(20) The knife proved useful in the end

(21) As a book it has useful anecdotes, but is otherwise nothing to get excited about.

(22) He's useful with the fists

(23) It would have been useful to examine whether advice and money had changed practice.

(24) It's a useful contribution to our understanding of that era

(25) They were also able to gather useful data from the tyre pressure monitoring system.

(26) Useful information

(27) Many people use too much salt in their cooking, and it is useful for them to know why this is bad for your heart.

(28) He said it was a useful and constructive meeting following on from the previous meeting.

(29) A list of archaic occupations includes many that might usefully be revived.

(30) Vases, for example, derive their value from their usefulness or desirability for humans.