How to Use prove (to be) useful in a Sentence
prove (to be) useful
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That could prove useful for the day when demand for new homes and buildings picks up.
—Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2024
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The rovers are expected to prove useful far beyond the moon as well.
—Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
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Apps notes a number of areas where these findings could prove useful.
—Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2022
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But there are a few smaller and lower price point items that are marked down and can prove useful in your kitchen.
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 3 Oct. 2024
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The watch’s under-the-hood specs might prove useful for extended days on set.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2023
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The distinctive bill would prove to be useful as the chick grew to scoop up crustaceans and fish.
—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
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Large language models may prove useful as aids for writing and coding.
—Nir Eisikovits, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
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For a thief looking to rob your home, the general whereabouts of its owners might prove useful.
—Fox News, 31 Dec. 2022
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These magnets would prove useful for newer technologies, too.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 9 May 2025
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The rest, although perhaps less successful now, could prove useful in the future.
—Javier Barbuzano, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
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Looking to the elders in the family, even those not in your direct lineage can prove useful.
—Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2021
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That’s where a different type of vaccine, one that works at the places where the virus gets into the body, will likely prove useful.
—Alice Park, Time, 31 Oct. 2022
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And since sleep difficulties were a strong predictor of self-harm across the board, sleep training could prove useful.
—Sarah Simon, Verywell Health, 21 Jan. 2024
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But the techniques in Simkin’s paper could prove useful for studying other questions as well.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2021
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Now, Vikram has become a quasi-coach for Vedanth, teaching him spelling tips and tricks that could prove useful in the big bee.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025
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Researchers made edible lasers, which might prove to be useful one day as sensors to monitor and track food or medicine intake.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
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And the innovation in this space may prove useful in business applications, too.
—Kj Dhaliwal, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
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With more research, unique urban fingerprints like these could prove useful for forensics, Mason says.
—Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 26 May 2021
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These movements would prove useful for something like clipping a T-shirt to a clothesline—one of the tasks in the competition.
—WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
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If Russia wants to distract the West in the event of a big move, Bosnia could prove useful to the Kremlin.
—Melinda Haring, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2021
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Having Sapphire as an investor should prove useful for Huntress, which plans to go public sometime in the future.
—Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 16 May 2023
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Those are steps can be taken immediately and are likely to prove useful no matter what long-term strategy the county adopts.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2021
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The Ducks have spread the ball out a lot in the air and that could prove useful against a Cardinal secondary that’s been depleted by injury.
—James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2021
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While her golf skills didn't prove useful in the Quantum Realm, Newton jumped at the chance to do as many of her own stunts as possible.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
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To optimists, this property of mirror molecules could prove useful in the fight against chronic disease.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
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Those insights could prove useful in a warming world, in which more icebergs are breaking off in Antarctica and the Arctic.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025
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Kafka also has a relationship with Poles that would prove useful in marrying a vision for the future.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025
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But if mast cells and IgE are driving symptoms, at least in some cases, immune therapies targeting them could prove useful.
—Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 13 Jan. 2021
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These appointments may prove useful in clarifying his direction for the Catholic Church.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
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The new teens being terrorized seek help from Ray and Julie, whose experience being stalked by a hook-wielding killer may prove useful.
—EW.com, 17 June 2025
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