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How to use usefulness in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun

Usefulness means the quality or degree of being useful. Example: “The usefulness of his latest reorganisation has been disputed.”

Examples of usefulness by meaning

nounThe quality or degree of being useful.

  • The usefulness of his latest reorganisation has been disputed.
  • It turns out, there’s research that backs up the usefulness of lowering our expectations.2024 May 14, Clay Drinko, “Lower Your Expectations”, in Psychology Today, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2025

More sentences with usefulness

  • But inevitably, my cisness crumbled, and with it, my belief in the usefulness of gender itself.2020, LJ, "Who Needs Gender?", in Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities (eds. Benjamin Vincent, Jos Twist, Kat Gupta…. From the entry cisness
  • However, 20% of the normal population also has the allele, reducing its usefulness in diagnostic testing.2013 May 1, James M. Parish MD, FCCP, “Genetic and Immunologic Aspects of Sleep and Sleep Disorders”, in Chest, volume 143, number 5…. From the entry cataplexy
  • When Kaganovich informed Stalin of this ‘heroic denunciatrix’, he immediately grasped her usefulness.2003, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 184. From the entry denunciatrix
  • They are nonaddicting, but tolerance tends to limit their period of usefulness.1985, Louis Sanford Goodman with Alfred Gilman, Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, page 624. From the entry nonaddicting
  • The usefulness of acid leveling copper can be expanded to plate many more unbuffed die castings.1973, William H Safranek, E W Brooman, Finishing and electroplating die cast and wrought zinc. From the entry unbuffed
  • The usefulness of isanomal maps to climatological study and students of climate is varied and profound.1967, Richard J. Kopec, “Areal patterns of seasonal temperature anomalies in the vicinity of the Great Lakes”, in Bulletin of the American…. From the entry isanomal
  • I have used them sparingly, and that is the absolute limit of their credibility or usefulness.1958 June, J. R. R. Tolkien, From a letter to Forrest J. Ackerman (#210). From the entry alighting
  • Rick Martinez (Michael Peña) jokes that he just discovered dirt, and Mark ribs him about the usefulness of his job.2016 August 31, “GENIUS CHARACTER REVEALS: Mark Watney”, in Industrial Scripts. From the entry rick
  • These parameters further support the usefulness of the new heptaplex PCR assay in routine clinical diagnosis and infection control.2015 August 5, Charles Emeka Okolie et al., “Development of a heptaplex PCR assay for identification of Staphylococcus aureus and CoNS…. From the entry heptaplex
  • Unfortunately, conventional nanoporous energetics can have poor long-term storage stability, and can be dangerously unstable, severely limiting their usefulness.2014 February 25, James J . Myrick, Nanoparticles, Compositions, Manufacture and Applications, US Patent US-10858296-B1, column 106. From the entry energetic
  • The patient with the latter carries an obvious stigma as the one less likely to be fully rehabilitable for social usefulness.2011, Irving Louis Horowitz, Culture and Civilization: Volume 2: Beyond Positivism and Historicism. From the entry rehabilitable
  • Myth as therapy: the usefulness of Þrymskviða.2000, John McKinnell, Myth as therapy: the usefulness of Þrymskviða., main title (self-published). From the entry Þrymskviða
  • Thus, the entire procedure of adjudication by the commission has become a farce and a travesty, which has outlived its usefulness.1984 February 4, Franklin Kameny, quotee, “A Call For Reorganization”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 2. From the entry adjudication
  • A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.1945 August 6, Harry S. Truman, 0:18 from the start, in VT2008-9-2 President Truman Announces Bombing of Hiroshima, Harry S. Truman…. From the entry Hiroshima
  • And to a Court bent on diminishing the usefulness of Rule 23, everything looks like a class action, ready to be dismantled.2013, American Express Co. et al. v. Italian Colors Restaurant et al. (U.S. Supreme Court No. 12–133), Justice Kagan dissenting. From the entry to a hammer, everything looks like a nail
  • This article develops the idea of resilience and examines its usefulness as an aid to understanding the reaction of regional economies to major recessionary shocks.2012, Ron Martin, Regional economic resilience, hysteresis and recessionary shocks, in: Journal of Economic Geography Volume 12(1)…. From the entry recessionary
  • Your usefulness is zero, your worth zero, and as zero you deserve to be treated as nothing, and in the extreme, noughted.2001, William Desmond, Ethics and the Between, page 507. From the entry nought
  • Besides, they selectively sorbitize ions of ammonium and of non-ferrous, alkaline-earth and radioactive metals, thereby enhancing their usefulness as filtering materials in water treatment.1998, Raj K. Singhal, Mine Planning and Equipment Selection 1998, →ISBN, page 703. From the entry sorbitize
  • Nothing is said about the usefulness of preprioceptive feedback in telling the eye which exact point in space it is looking at.1975, John W. Gyr, “The relationship between motor and visual-sensory processes in perception”, from Perceptual and Learning Disabilities…. From the entry preprioceptive
  • Yet China, like Russia, is now giving us an object lesson in the usefulness of having an open society, where strongmen don’t get to invent their own reality.2022 March 17, Paul Krugman, “Another Dictator Is Having a Bad Year”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry object lesson
  • The insight underlying such wordlists is that frequency, combined with metrics such as range and dispersion, profiles for teachers and students the relative usefulness of words.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific…. From the entry metric
  • While their usefulness was debatable, they definitely gave the earlier V phones some identity, and there will certainly be a faction of LG fans who ragetweet the loss.2017 October, Michael Simon, “LG V30 hands-on: A 6-inch beast with more power and fewer gimmicks”, in PC World, page 74. From the entry ragetweet
  • With a nationful of prospective Russian teachers in the offing and Annie no longer plagued by nausea, she saw her usefulness to the Graylins at an end.2010, Carola Dunn, chapter 7, in Lady in the Briars, Belgrave House, →ISBN. From the entry nationful
  • Playwrights have recognized the usefulness of this archetype and used him in many dramatic contexts, for the Trickster's freedom from determination gives him a universal fascination.1983, Wendy Griswold, “The Devil's Techniques: Cultural Legitimation and Social Change”, in American Sociological Review, volume 48…. From the entry universal
  • We have repeatedly referred to the usefulness of steps, lines, ticks, clocks, routines, pacings, etc. - scales, measures, series, patterns, disposed in a fixed and regular and conventional space-time.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings. From the entry pacing
  • Its usefulness is especially significant in the area of detection of toxic metals, such as lead, chromium and cadmium which may enter the water supply through pollutionary sources.1969, A Statistical Supplement to the 1969 Annual Report of the Department Of Water & Sewers, City of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., →OCLC, page 43. From the entry pollutionary
  • He wrote appreciatively of the usefulness and good conduct of the watch-dog, a splendid creature, much bigger than I am, with the lap-doggy name of Mou-Mou.1920, [Elizabeth von Arnim], In the Mountains, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 48. From the entry lap-doggy
  • The sanitaries of the Washington school have outlived their usefulness, the odor from them and their surroundings being very offensive, and in my opinion injurious to pupils and teachers.1904, Municipal Register of the City of Waterbury, page 34. From the entry sanitaries

Meaning of usefulness

  1. noun The quality or degree of being useful.

Full definition of usefulness

Questions about usefulness in a sentence

How do you use usefulness in a sentence?
Usefulness is used as a noun. For example: “The usefulness of his latest reorganisation has been disputed.”
What is a short sentence with usefulness?
“Myth as therapy: the usefulness of Þrymskviða.”
What does usefulness mean?
Usefulness means the quality or degree of being useful.

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