Extra money could be usefully spent on this project.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a useful member of society. ,the useful arts; useful work.    From Dictionary.com. 

Long empty streets, red, orange, golden leaves, sunlight and moonlight almost become actors in usefully letting the Halloween (the holiday) feel be so present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scores & Soundtracks: Halloween & A Nightmare on Elm Street] Reference

Never mind, I'm sure it kept a number of civil servants "usefully" employed for a few years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

It already has prodded usefully on national issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anc's Nasty Wake-Up Call] Reference

Wright is now dead, a thought the RIRA might usefully ponder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where will Real IRA threats lead? Not very far] Reference

Many, however, can be usefully mitigated when the time is ripe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memo To The 1993 Crowd: Believe In Yourselves] Reference

April, and he thought I could put in my time usefully by making a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Let us sift a little through the noise and see what we can usefully tease out.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Many Documents, So Little Revelation] Reference

The atmosphere of diligent labor usefully directed is always of a healthy nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference

To be sure, there are differences, and some Japanese practices are usefully copied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan As Number Two] Reference

Perhaps the current situation could be more usefully compared to a more normative figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Volatile Housing Market Baffles Homeowners] Reference

(Here the gentle cloak of anonymity will usefully protect you from the full public gaze.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and culture cuts: tell us how they are affecting you] Reference

This is somewhat easier than Pass 1, and may sometimes be usefully substituted for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference

Are there lessons you've learned that you can usefully transfer to the occupied territories?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['What Do You Want The Palestinians To Do?'] Reference

It is a program that could be usefully viewed by most of America's roughly 13,000 economists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economists Out to Lunch] Reference

And surely any individual who chooses to be idle rather than to be usefully employed, is exceedingly ill-bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

American officials have been at pains to stress that Syria has cooperated usefully in the war against Al Qaeda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diplomatic Diary: Lessons For The Future] Reference

It transpired that he possessed some land, and I asked why he did not occupy himself usefully by cultivating it.    From Wordnik.com.  [India and the Indians] Reference

What nurses then say to children, "Give up crying, and you shall have it," may usefully be applied to anger, thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

The data also suggest a guideline for how high worm populations might be usefully increased by adding organic matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

It is difficult to make a tank that would contain enough hydrogen usefully to run a fuel cell that would fit in a car.    From Wordnik.com.  [Online Forum: Editors on the Future of Energy] Reference

The fact that the Brietbarts of the world have achieved so little, as Conor usefully highlights, may help to focus us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Scher: The Conservative Smear Machine Has Failed Conservatism] Reference

Farmyard manure may be usefully applied to young grass and clover seeds in the autumn, more especially on light soils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

The sea-pilot steamer "Advance" continues to do her work satisfactorily, and is most usefully employed at her present station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91] Reference

However, if there is a trial it would usefully reacquaint Americans with a radicalism that is still romanticized by some people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waning Of 'Terror Chic'] Reference

The greatest have not disdained to labor honestly and usefully for a living, though at the same time aiming after higher things.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference

"The volume is an excellent piece of original research work, and it is most usefully illustrative of the working of the constitution.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)] Reference

One question we can usefully ask in regard to a particular style or poem is, What is the range of feeling or sensibility in this poetry?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference

In the case of a steam boiler the efficiency is the percentage of the heat supplied in the coal that is usefully employed in making steam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing] Reference

We are uncomfortable admitting our pain, our inexperience, our incompetence; and, as a result, we sometimes ignore resources we usefully could tap.    From Wordnik.com.  [12 Things You Must Know To Survive And Thrive In] Reference

For the Soviet Union, on the other hand, there is little that these nations can usefully provide Mikhail Gorbachev -- except advice and their very best wishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Gorbachev Is A Sideshow] Reference

At a stroke, Bill Bradley recently refuted the bromide that he is boring, and in doing so he usefully illuminated the upcoming Senate debate on campaign finance reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [A 100 Percent Tax On Speech?] Reference