How to Use helpful in a Sentence

helpful

adjective

• A helpful neighbor shoveled our walkway.
• The food’s good, the drinks at the bar are cold (and potent), the staff is friendly and helpful.
  — Mark Gauert, Sun Sentinel, 16 May 2025
• There are helpful pop-up tips that ease users into the process.
  — Valerie Walsh, wsj.com, 1 Nov. 2023
• Cool air from the fridge or freezer can be helpful as well.
  — Evan Forster, Parents, 17 June 2024
• For one, taxi-whistling can, in fact, be helpful in hailing cabs.
  — Jon Gluck, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Dish soap can be a helpful force for working drain and eating at the clog.
  — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 4 July 2025
• But police had found a helpful clue during the search of Twitchell's home.
  — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2022
• Seek out people who are kind, helpful and have your back.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
• Keep scrolling to see some other helpful home finds that are all on sale right now.
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• And so to try to play games with that, to me, one is not helpful, but two is not credible.
  — Fox News, 29 July 2022
• Which isn’t to say the subsidies contained in the Chips Act won’t be helpful.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• The options are helpful for people who need to avoid gluten, too.
  — Stacey Hugues, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2023
• Is there a way to be helpful without losing her as a friend?
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 8 May 2024
• If not, a grinder brush, a soft, clean toothbrush, and a slightly damp rag can be helpful.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 June 2023
• Stretching your hip, calves, and shins could be helpful.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 1 Feb. 2023
• But that's not super helpful if your phone has been snatched from a bag or pocket out in the wild.
  — Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 11 May 2023
• Even doing this once a year or at least once during the loan term is helpful.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 10 Nov. 2022
• So download, print or screenshot this helpful guide to the air show, Ford's Thunder on the Ground and more.
  — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 22 Apr. 2022
• Even Trump’s helpers are not always helpful in the final days of a neck and neck contest.
  — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
• The data are clear that these medicines, when used wisely, are helpful.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2 Feb. 2023
• To be able to make a little bit of light out of such a hard thing was really helpful.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• And that's helpful now that there's a little bit more power.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 21 Nov. 2022
• Here’s where a large mirror display can be helpful in an open floor space: to set off a bar.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
• Even a small amount of weight loss may be helpful in decreasing joint pain.
  — Wendy Wisner, Health, 20 June 2025
• And your answering for the other commenter isn't helpful in the first place.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• Adding a future first could be helpful this season or down the road to grease a trade, as Weaver looks to build out the roster.
  — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2023
• Just getting out of the house and away from electronics is helpful.
  — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
• This plays up against Lee’s straight-arrow image in a way that won’t be helpful.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2022
• This is a helpful list of poll closing times by state, via FiveThirtyEight.
  — Cate Martel, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
• The decision to spend more time in talks with Beijing was welcomed by importers, but all the back and forth on how big the tariffs would be and when they would be applied has not been helpful.
  — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025