How to Use public utility in a Sentence

public utility

noun

• As a public utility, Google search would have to give others a better shot.
  — Dave Yost, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
• The body is known as the public utility commission in many other states.
  — Melissa Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2022
• Google’s critics have said for years that it should be treated like a public utility.
  — Tripp Mickle, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• The other three are taxes on sales at Nationals Park; public utilities; and rent that the team pays D.C. for the ballpark.
  — Andrew Golden, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
• For Kucinich, saving the public utility has been a crusade.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2020
• The sprawling Spanish-style home is hooked up to public utilities but is designed for more than two weeks of off-grid living.
  — James Tarmybloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• With nearly 3 billion users around the world, Facebook has a reach that’s closer to a public utility than a fun social app.
  — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
• Fire personnel and public utilities workers were at the scene to shut off gas and electricity to the house.
  — Molly Sullivan, sacbee, 27 June 2018
• He is considered one of the most knowledgeable experts on public utility law in the state.
  — Mark Gillispie, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
• The spread of the novel coronavirus around the world has made many of us shut-ins and proven conclusively that the internet should be a public utility.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2020
• Ryan Keith Cox was an account clerk who had worked in the public utilities department for more than 12 years.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
• And that spending will be under the oversight of the state public utility commission (PUC).
  — David Roberts, Vox, 5 June 2019
• Siegele acknowledged the price tag but said the city can acquire the infrastructure through a bond that can be paid off by the public utility over a number of years.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• But the center of the action in the United States is now in states and before public utility regulators.
  — Jon Goldin-Dubois, The Denver Post, 4 June 2019
• And of course the costs for those substations and distribution lines will fall, partly, on the public utilities.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2018
• Once a court declares Google a public utility, the marketplace itself would provide the guard rails.
  — Dave Yost, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
• Like Google, it should not only be broken up; its core service should be replaced with some kind of free public utility in the near future.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 14 Dec. 2020
• The remainder are oil and gas companies and public utilities; skiers are no longer a focus.
  — Joshua Brusteinbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
• Musk tends to make things that either are useless or have existed as public utilities for decades.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2020
• The first issue in this debate is whether Facebook should be considered a public utility at all.
  — Os Keyes, Wired, 11 Jan. 2022
• This, of course, responds to the economic rebound in tandem with some of the worst moments of the Covid-19 lockdown, but also sits in the context of price controls and public utility freezes.
  — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• The shooter, DeWayne Craddock, had worked for the city for 15 years as an engineer with the public utilities department.
  — Fox News, 7 June 2019
• There are no public utilities, and no reliable sources of food or drinking water.
  — Kirk Semple, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• In fact, common carriage is not a more general species of public utility.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 15 July 2021
• He was appointed to the city’s public utility board and served as vice president of the chamber of commerce before he was elected to city council in 1962.
  — Karen Brainard, Ramona Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2018
• Cox, 50, had been an account clerk in Virginia Beach’s public utilities department for 12 years.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020
• Others argue for treating Facebook as a public utility but disagree on what that might mean.
  — Os Keyes, Wired, 11 Jan. 2022
• Such a plan would still need to be facilitated by a public utility, so Budish moved to create one at the county-level.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 13 July 2021
• The case turned on the state's definition of a public utility as any company or other entity that provides power, light, heat, gas or water services to the public.
  — Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
• What's next: Heimdall will need to scale up commercially, execute on its U.S. projects and navigate the various state public utility commissions that govern grid investments.
  — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024