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
• 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
• 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
• These things are often years out from their true usefulness.
  — Brady Dale, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Yet, the usefulness of their insights isn’t all that surprising.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
• Regardless, a wide receiver with some real tenacity and usefulness over the middle could go a long way.
  — Derrik Klassen, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025