How to Use usefulness in a Sentence

usefulness

noun

• The Mesopotamians were among the first known to grasp the usefulness of the charge account.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• This isn’t the first time ERVs have shown their usefulness.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2023
• Get feedback from them on the usefulness of the product.
  — Paul Flick, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• But the Jesuits have outlived their usefulness to the 77-year-old tyrant.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2023
• So, there's the feeling there that the whole usefulness of this as a serious tool is very much up in the air.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022
• Nor, in the eyes of officials, have caps on births lost their usefulness.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 July 2021
• Part of it has to do with the usefulness of the clock as both a tool of coordination and a tool of control.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2021
• In white hat philosophy, usefulness is the name of the game.
  — Timothy Carter, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
• Here, ranked by usefulness, our guide to its key selling points.
  — Sal Vaglica, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
• But the actual usefulness of the long-press gesture is the Quick Actions.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 Aug. 2022
• The usefulness of paper here cuts to the real heart of what makes to-do management such a grim problem.
  — Clive Thompson, Wired, 27 July 2021
• And lastly, usefulness is high if relevance to the job is high.
  — Arun Shastri, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• But there's no strong evidence for its usefulness as a nasal spray or rinse, Hamer said.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
• That’s part of their usefulness and their criteria evolve over time.
  — Simon Moore, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• Much of the study’s usefulness may come in the extreme granularity of the data.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 18 June 2022
• No car updates with the speed, frequency or usefulness of a phone.
  — John Hayes, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Buy things for their usefulness rather than their status.
  — Joshua Becker, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• This design also expands the usefulness of the hand while it’s attached to a robot arm.
  — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2024
• While the Renegade has real off-road chops, its daily usefulness takes a few hits.
  — Ryan Zummallen, Star Tribune, 7 July 2021
• Shoppers love the quality and usefulness of the cast iron griddle.
  — Malia Griggs, SELF, 15 July 2022
• There would be a usefulness for having the students involved.
  — al, 18 Sep. 2022
• Batchelder said the staff looked at every software being used, and assessed its value in terms of usefulness in the next school year.
  — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2022
• But the usefulness of drones is not lost on Los Angeles County Fire.
  — Stephanie Elam, CNN, 9 July 2022
• But when the war ended, its usefulness as a base waned, and the airport fell into disrepair.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 12 July 2022
• Each swipe of the mop proves its usefulness, a glistening arc on a floor that a second ago looked O.K. but now is revealed to have been dusty and dull all along.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The usefulness of these formerly fun discourse pictures is on the wane.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
• With this usefulness come dangers and distractions such as music that get in the way of work, Francis said.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
• Her team tests the usefulness of problems with their own teams first and gathers feedback before rolling it out.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• In effect, the Trustees seem to have agreed that these committees have outlived their usefulness.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 May 2021
• For Pressly, our obscurities are precisely what endow us with a sense of value that exceeds our usefulness.
  — Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024