1.   A new set of drawing tools may prove handy.

2.   In the case of the Germantown family and the nursing home bill, an agency specializing in complaint resolution proved handy.

3.   One of them should even prove handy in uploading this column to the highest authorities.

4.   Politically, Packwood provides a reliable Republican vote, and as the Senate considers legislation crucial to Republican plans to transform government, one more vote could prove handy.

5.   Still, whenever speech drafts are required, ghost writers have proven more handy than word processors.

6.   The young Margulois then went to St. Louis University, where he studied law, a trade that would prove handy in his notoriously tough theatrical contract negotiations.

7.   While it proved handy, I could live without the flashing taillights and three warning beeps that accompany its operation.

8.   The security provided to them proved handy when one of the body guards eventually plucked both cricketers out of the water with the help of a few life guards.