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
  • 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
  • This isn’t the first time ERVs have shown their usefulness.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • Plants wear out their usefulness and need to be changed.
    — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The bad news is that the usefulness of all this will be limited at first.
    — The Economist, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Get feedback from them on the usefulness of the product.
    — Paul Flick, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The debate is about more than just the usefulness of bold goals in global health.
    — Martin Enserink, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Some have outlived their usefulness and sit idle, a relic of the past.
    — Jeremy Bradley, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2020
  • But as the league’s earning power has grown, the rule’s usefulness has changed.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Moghimi points to the usefulness of such data in the British context.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 19 June 2020
  • Nor, in the eyes of officials, have caps on births lost their usefulness.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 July 2021
  • If a tie has outlived its usefulness, this is a time to let go and move forward.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2020
  • Once the eggs fully mature, the host has lost its usefulness.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2018
  • That business of the 2 a.m. time for the clock change has also outlived its usefulness.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The film repeatedly goes back to the idea of usefulness.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2019
  • 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
  • But putting aside Carr’s actions, all of this does raise the question of whether the equal-time rule has outlived its usefulness.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • But the pace of change in his lifetime had undermined much of its usefulness.
    — Matthew Halliday/undark, Popular Science, 29 May 2020
  • The usefulness of the one-on-one meeting has become a topic for debate.
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The concept made a limited impact with the team because his boss didn’t believe in its usefulness.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
  • Looked at in one way, the corporate office is not exactly a paradigm of usefulness.
    — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025

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