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
• Some have outlived their usefulness and sit idle, a relic of the past.
  — Jeremy Bradley, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• While labeled a crib, parents attest to its usefulness as a pack-and-play.
  — Popular Science, 12 June 2020
• There are many maps, usefulness enhanced by their large size.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
• But now that the likes of Filecoin and PolkaDot are up and running, the window of time for blockchain to prove its usefulness may be shrinking.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2020
• Still, as ventilators pile up, the usefulness of some of the devices to the fight against covid-19 remains a question.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
• Much of the study’s usefulness may come in the extreme granularity of the data.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 18 June 2022
• Even the best medicines and techniques lose their usefulness if too many people get sick at the same time, taxing staffing and supplies.
  — Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2020
• 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
• By the 1980s, when more modern methods of summoning help had supplanted its usefulness, the tower remained as a beacon for bored teenagers.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
• The usefulness of an index like BMI lies in its simplicity—a quick calculation produces a single number that gives a benchmark for health.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 10 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025