"utility" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Once the province of high-pressure peddlers of gadgets of dubious utility, infomercials have expanded in the last couple of years to include nationally known marketers selling well-known products.
- The music was not consistently top shelf: a folksy Partita by Albrechtsberger, surely a functional work in its day, seemed of dubious utility as a concert piece.
- Here in Beijing, SARS has spawned a booming industry, a macabre world of potions, creams, disinfectants, shots, gloves, masks and more, many of dubious utility.
- Regarded by others as a tour de force of dubious utility, he drew on Mendelian principles with singular vigour.
- Traditional weapons of any kind were of dubious utility against the nightcreatures, but certainly something sharp or hard in his hand would have lent more confidence to his gait.
- Economists say this spending has wasted huge sums of money on public works of dubious utility and merely postponed the day of reckoning for thousands of unprofitable protected companies.
- While of dubious utility, especially for shorter strings, it nevertheless may save time during translations.
- An unusual interior feature of dubious utility was the passenger grab handle on the dash in place of the standard glovebox.
- There's plant science, too, which is interesting if of dubious utility.
- Those qualities are happily evident in his new film, "An Everlasting Piece," another comedy about striving salesmen pushing a product of dubious utility, in this case toupees.
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