utile
Example Sentences
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But the words pleasant and useful suggest a possible way forward: They invoke the Roman poet Horace’s two-pronged injunction for art—that it be both dulce et utile.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2017
He had always cherished the fact that his wife made objects not only attractive but utile, which should have made them more valuable, not less.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2011
His ambivalence seems to surface in the range of diction: the arty "utile," the cliché "arm and a leg," the vulgar rhetorical question.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2011
The latest examples of the utile are handsomely represented.
From Time Magazine Archive
Long hours of atavistic sleep to keep the body still and hidden from barely visible predators had been utile in prehistory but now it was an anachronistic vestige of adaptation.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
