How to Use useful life in a Sentence

useful life

noun

• For one thing, equipment at the connection points is 30 to 40 years old, and nearing the end of its useful life.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2018
• This will replace equipment that is past its useful life.
  — Tom Johanningmeier, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
• They must be forced to store enough fuel and retain the capability for spacecraft to steer safely out of space when their useful life is over.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 17 May 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
• These schedules often require businesses to deduct the cost of these investments over an extended period, which can be much longer than the useful life of the assets.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 23 May 2024
• As the number of EVs increases, so, eventually, will the volume of batteries reaching the end of their useful life in vehicles.
  — Peter Evans, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• 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
• When removed from the reactor at the end of their useful life, usually about two years, the rods are highly radioactive and, if unshielded, can deliver a lethal dose within seconds to anyone standing within about a foot.
  — Philip Diehl, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
• 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
• If the landlord applies for a rent increase based on capital improvements to a heating system, tenants can object by arguing that the existing system has not exceeded its useful life as outlined by the state.
  — Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• 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
• These materials are inherently resistant to many vulnerabilities that affect wood, such as rot, decay and pest infestation, thus extending the pergola’s useful life.
  — Ascend Agency, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024