BENEFICIAL in a Sentence

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The US and Europe are both moving to low sulphur fuels for emissions reasons, but it is a beneficial ingredient for the engine.

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 Meanings and Examples of BENEFICIAL
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beneficial
 a.  helpful; tending to promote physical well-being
Classic Sentence:
1  But as the right to accuse is beneficial in a republic, so calumny, on the other hand, is useless and hurtful, as in the following Chapter I shall proceed to show.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII.
2  For it was because these were sound that the endless commotions which took place in Rome, so far from being hurtful, were, from their object being good, beneficial to the commonwealth.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII.
3  We find, accordingly, that while the dictatorship was conferred in conformity with public ordinances, and not through personal influence, it was constantly beneficial to the city.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
4  'We act by virtue of what we recognise as beneficial,' observed Bazarov.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  I'll tell you; saying, for instance, that education is beneficial, that's a common-place; but to say that education is injurious, that's a common-place turned upside down.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  They poured a little rum down his throat, and this remedy which had before been so beneficial to him, produced the same effect as formerly.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
7  In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tithes as may be beneficial to himself and not offensive to his patron.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
8  I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  Now she hoped for some beneficial change; and, after a period of nothing-saying amongst the party, some of them did decide on going in quest of tea.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
Example Sentence:
1  Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
2  Lawyers, under the cloak of client confidentiality, can mask the beneficial owners of accounts.
3  An aptitude for computing is beneficial for students taking this degree.
4  Some alternative treatments may prove highly beneficial.
5  Tiny Tim's cheerful good nature had a beneficial influence on Scrooge's charitable disposition.
6  The US and Europe are both moving to low sulphur fuels for emissions reasons, but it is a beneficial ingredient for the engine.
7  I have forwarded it to the dietetics program I attended at my university as it would be beneficial for the nutrition students to review it.
8  In trials, the small but statistically significant reductions in cholesterols and blood pressure, suggest a beneficial effect on other major cardiovascular risk factors.