put to good use

1. Employ to the best advantage, as in I'm sure this dictionary will be put to good use.

Example Sentences

Mater Lumley offered a clean pocket handkerchief, which Lord Fredrick put to good use.

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The younger Swanburne girls had lived in terror of her bloodcurdling scream, which was put to good use every autumn at Heathcote’s annual Haunted Hay Maze festival.

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All the preparation in case of an emergency was put to good use by the coach trained in CPR and the athletic trainer who knew how to use an AED machine.

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"No matter how many are delivered, all will be put to good use," he tells the BBC.

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His plays are held together by thematic ideas James would have put to good use in his novels but are harder to build a dramatic world upon.

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