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
• The new Traverse is square-jawed and trucklike and loses none of its usefulness in the makeover.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 25 Sep. 2017
• But as the league’s earning power has grown, the rule’s usefulness has changed.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• The results from the six drops made over Maria testify to the drones' usefulness, Cione says.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
• 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
• While the usefulness of welders hasn’t changed a lot since then, the technology has.
  — Nicholas Wicks, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2017
• 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
• The agency agreed to pay most of the $100 million cost of the study to better determine usefulness.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 July 2017
• 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
• Outside of the issue of racial bias, what do your results say about the usefulness of stop-and-frisk as a policing tool?
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• The six-foot cable’s usefulness speaks for itself, but I’ve been surprised by how much of a game-changer it’s been for me at home.
  — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 14 Feb. 2026
• Some experts who haven’t been involved in the clock’s designation have questioned its usefulness.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026
• Acceptance may come down to usefulness.
  — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026