How to Use useful in a Sentence

useful

adjective

• She has become one of the team's most useful players.
• Why don't you do something useful with your life?
• Does anyone have any useful suggestions?
• It can be useful to know CPR.
• The Internet is useful for finding information quickly.
• End of carousel The new Google can do some useful things.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• Michael Dukes: There had to be a useful outcome at the end.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
• And in the case of the Maine shooting, this is a rather useful deflection.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
• As small as the sprouts are now, a machete might be useful.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Jan. 2022
• The drain plug is attached with a chain and there is an air vent on the side that could be useful.
  — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2023
• One of the most useful sets of trinkets to find are the Totems of Rightful Rulership.
  — Ryan Woodrow, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
• The trips themselves can be useful for due diligence, the group added.
  — Neil Weinberg, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
• This open source map is a whole heck of a lot more useful than Starlink’s own.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2022
• So that's something that will be useful in the future for sure.
  — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2021
• And their advice had to feel safe and practical and of course fun and useful.
  — The Editors Of Mh, Men's Health, 19 July 2023
• Laptops tend to be useful for a lot of workers out there.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
• This useful gift will come in handy for an at-home happy hour.
  — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 17 June 2025
• This does two things, both of which are useful to you as a business owner.
  — Allbusiness, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• But sometimes, as in the case of lifting weights, putting the corners back on is useful too.
  — Sean Hyson, Men's Health, 11 Nov. 2022
• To me, that’s the stuff that’s going to be really useful here.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
• Each one is designed to help cooks and is packed with useful tips and even leftover ideas.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2023
• As is often the case, taking heed from where this has been done well is useful.
  — Bianca Barratt, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• But those chargers are useful only if EVs are on the road.
  — NBC News, 14 Feb. 2022
• Recording a conversation can be useful in the short term and in the long run.
  — Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
• Help your 6-year-old learn more about STEM, with fun gifts that teach skills in these useful areas.
  — Erica Puisis, Parents, 9 Mar. 2024
• On the whole, however, the ex-president played a useful role in Nicaragua that year.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
• Precise partitioning would have been useful for equal sharing of crops and other resources.
  — New Atlas, 7 Feb. 2026
• The laundry room is large enough to actually be useful, with a sink and plenty of workspace.
  — Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
• Though both may be useful, experts say glycine has the edge for supporting sleep.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 6 Feb. 2026
• Space heaters are small appliances that are useful for adding extra warmth to make rooms feel more cozy.
  — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026