How to Use useful life in a Sentence

useful life

noun

• This will replace equipment that is past its useful life.
  — Tom Johanningmeier, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
• If the inspection shows the roof has five or more years of useful life left, the insurance company could not reject coverage simply because of age.
  — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• The risk of door failures can increase as rail cars age past their useful life, experts said, requiring extra vigilance and upkeep.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• Updates that prolong your home’s useful life—such as adding a new roof, for example—are another option, as are improvements that adapt your home to new uses.
  — Aly J. Yale, wsj.com, 12 Oct. 2023
• AccuVote devices are currently the only tabulators certified for use in the state, but those are nearing the end of their useful life.
  — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The chemical, a wood preservative and known carcinogen, was once routinely applied to telephone and electric poles to lengthen their useful life.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• The groups represent a mix of 5,000 full-time and contract cybersecurity professionals who currently work in World War II-era hangars that are said to be past their useful life.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2024
• To learn better mindfulness is to acquire eminently useful life skills; technology is the conduit to this.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Derived from fossil fuels—with a high carbon footprint, and creating a waste problem at the end of its useful life—purchasing new plastic is best avoided where possible.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 22 June 2023
• The federal and high-priority fleets would be required to only purchase medium and heavy vehicles that are zero-emission starting in 2024, and phase out other vehicles by the end of their useful life.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• The data minimization approach dictates that sensitive data should not be stored beyond its useful life.
  — Rajesh Parthasarathy, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Avoid overspending on these items, considering their limited useful life.
  — Pattie Ehsaei, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Virtually all satellites are designed to burn up completely on re-entry once their useful life is over, to avoid collisions with active satellites on orbit or risk damaging property or people on Earth.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2023
• Public transit rail cars typically have a useful life of 31 years, and after that often need more frequent, expensive repairs, members of the Illinois congressional delegation said in a joint statement.
  — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023

Last Updated: 23 Aug 2024