Слово "use". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'

They used to say, the mystics used to say, that there was a time when the handsome man wore not a tailcoat but a wide leather belt with pistol butts sticking from it, and his raven hair was tied with scarlet silk, and under his command a brig sailed the Caribbean under a black death flag with a skull and crossbones.

If he had been more analytical, he might have calculated the approximate time of their arrival; but he still used the lifetime habit of judging nightfall by the sky, and on cloudy days that method didn’t work.

He wanted to teach them how to speak on a specific subject without using notes.

Now, as at the moment in which d'Artagnan fixed his eyes upon the gentleman in the violet doublet, the gentleman made one of his most knowing and profound remarks respecting the Bearnese pony, his two auditors laughed even louder than before, and he himself, though contrary to his custom, allowed a pale smile (if I may allowed to use such an expression) to stray over his countenance.

♫ What's the use of two strong legs ♫

who can recharge your cell phone using bicycles.

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'

Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's garden.

A few of the pieces were so large that they could be used as window-panes; it would have been a sad thing to look at our friends through them.

Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's garden.

Those were the words you used, Mr. Dufresne, according to your neighbors.

'When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything.

The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the principles of DOUBLETHINK, this aim is simultaneously recognized and not recognized by the directing brains of the Inner Party) is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

''Do you remember when he used to come to the Terrace?''