How to Use useful in a Sentence

useful

adjective
  • She has become one of the team's most useful players.
  • Why don't you do something useful with your life?
  • Does anyone have any useful suggestions?
  • It can be useful to know CPR.
  • The Internet is useful for finding information quickly.
  • What proved to be most useful to you?
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
  • Pettman is useful on this front.
    — Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • If so, these trades can be useful.
    — Vito Emanuel, NPR, 5 Mar. 2026
  • My breadth comes from my need to be useful.
    — Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026
  • That’s not useful for any artists.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Is bleach useful for killing weeds?
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Our end goal is to produce a map that's useful and fun!
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But that doesn’t mean every crate and box is useful.
    — Katie Cloyd, Martha Stewart, 25 Apr. 2026
  • That is a big shift for something this useful.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026
  • For them, jamming serves as a useful edge case.
    — Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
  • This useful gift will come in handy for an at-home happy hour.
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 17 June 2025
  • There's also a useful shelf area above the kitchen.
    — New Atlas, 12 June 2026
  • Taking bags full of trash to your thrift store isn't useful.
    — Kate McKenna, The Spruce, 15 Feb. 2026
  • That’s very useful in cold places, as a cold battery has less range.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The question is, how much more useful?
    — Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
  • If the risk turns out to be very high, the knowledge can still be useful.
    — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Stories are useful to the state.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Many of the most useful phone features come to Tahoe.
    — Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And that was something that was useful to try and click into.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 June 2026
  • The vast space remained useful in other ways for a while.
    — Henry Kornaros, Curbed, 26 June 2026
  • Not all feedback is useful, and not all feedback is fair.
    — Susanne Biro, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This report provides some useful ideas on how to fix it.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
  • So that's something that will be useful in the future for sure.
    — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Both flight attendants agree that a large scarf or wrap is far more useful.
    — Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
  • My Quince linen tank top is one of the most useful pieces in my closet.
    — Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 30 May 2026

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