How to Use usefulness in a Sentence

usefulness

noun
  • But that doesn't mean your iron's usefulness is a thing of the past.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Here, ranked by usefulness, our guide to its key selling points.
    — Sal Vaglica, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
  • There are many maps, usefulness enhanced by their large size.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The nation-state had a good run, but its usefulness may have come to an end.
    — Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The bad news is that the usefulness of all this will be limited at first.
    — The Economist, 25 Dec. 2019
  • The dataset is a byproduct of usefulness.
    — Renana Ashkenazi, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • If a tie has outlived its usefulness, this is a time to let go and move forward.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2020
  • The debate is about more than just the usefulness of bold goals in global health.
    — Martin Enserink, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2019
  • His charm drops the moment usefulness ends.
    — Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Some have outlived their usefulness and sit idle, a relic of the past.
    — Jeremy Bradley, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Nor, in the eyes of officials, have caps on births lost their usefulness.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 July 2021
  • Once the eggs fully mature, the host has lost its usefulness.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2018
  • The jail was coming to an end of its usefulness and would be replaced in just three years.
    — Kevin Foster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2026
  • That’s part of their usefulness and their criteria evolve over time.
    — Simon Moore, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • But as the league’s earning power has grown, the rule’s usefulness has changed.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The buildings were about 60 years old and had reached the end of their usefulness, the city says.
    — Daily Pilot Staff, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • But the pace of change in his lifetime had undermined much of its usefulness.
    — Matthew Halliday/undark, Popular Science, 29 May 2020
  • This gadget is the perfect white elephant gift that will be loved for its usefulness.
    — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2024
  • On both sides of the war for Gilead, usefulness is next to godliness.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And lastly, usefulness is high if relevance to the job is high.
    — Arun Shastri, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • While labeled a crib, parents attest to its usefulness as a pack-and-play.
    — Popular Science, 12 June 2020
  • The Mesopotamians were among the first known to grasp the usefulness of the charge account.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • While the usefulness of welders hasn’t changed a lot since then, the technology has.
    — Nicholas Wicks, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2017
  • But there's no strong evidence for its usefulness as a nasal spray or rinse, Hamer said.
    — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • And this lowers their usefulness.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
  • This can limit the usefulness of aliases for certain sign-ups.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Jan. 2026
  • While the quality of the data still needs to progress, the usefulness cannot be denied.
    — Hughey Newsome, Forbes.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The usefulness of the one-on-one meeting has become a topic for debate.
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The new Traverse is square-jawed and trucklike and loses none of its usefulness in the makeover.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 25 Sep. 2017

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