USEFULNESS in a Sentence

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1. The used key is always bright.
2. He used his good arm to support his weight.
3. Sulphur is also used to sterilize equipment.
4. He used the occasion to announce further tax cuts.
5. Cigarette smoking used to be commoner among affluent people.

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 Meanings and Examples of USEFULNESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
usefulness
 n.  the quality of being of practical use
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Granting even that a considerable proportion of the third unheard from are unsuccessful, this is a record of usefulness.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  Some of them, like ex-Governor Bullock, of Georgia, were men of high character and usefulness.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
3  I noted that just in proportion as the usefulness of the school grew, his donations increased.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
4  Under the clear, strong, and almost perfect leadership of Dr. Frissell, Hampton has had a career of prosperity and usefulness that is all that the General could have wished for.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
5  She had great pleasure in feeling her usefulness, but could not conceive how they would have managed without her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
6  Her usefulness to little Charles would always give some sweetness to the memory of her two months' visit there, but he was gaining strength apace, and she had nothing else to stay for.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  His lameness prevented him from taking much exercise; but a mind of usefulness and ingenuity seemed to furnish him with constant employment within.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
9  To Konstantin Levin the country was good first because it afforded a field for labor, of the usefulness of which there could be no doubt.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
10  It would be an unequal exchange, to give a warrior, in the prime of his age and usefulness, for the best woman on the frontiers.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
11  He narrated that episode so persistently and with so important an air that everyone believed in the merit and usefulness of his deed, and he had obtained two decorations for Austerlitz.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI
12  Ethan set about unloading the logs and when he had finished his job he pushed open the glazed door of the shed which the builder used as his office.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
13  He used to think that fifty years sounded like a long time to live together, but now it seemed to him that they might pass in a flash.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
14  I always tell Mr. Hale I don't know what she'd 'a' done if she hadn't 'a' had you to look after her; and I used to say the same thing 'bout your mother.'
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
15  "That girl that's coming told me she was used to a house where they had a furnace," Zeena persisted with the same monotonous mildness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Pronouns are often used to refer to a noun that has already been mentioned.
17  Sulphur is also used to sterilize equipment.
18  Although purists may object to split infinitives, like 'to boldly go', the fact is, they are commonly used.
19  The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquirde it.
20  The used key is always bright.
21  Cigarette smoking used to be commoner among affluent people.
22  The government has pledged to reduce the amount of chemicals used in food production.
23  He used the occasion to announce further tax cuts.
24  The stakes are pushed or hammered into the ground and can be used for marking an area, supporting a plant or forming part of a fence.
25  These arguments may have been used as a rhetorical device to argue for a perpetuation of a United Nations role.
26  They used to argue all the time and now they've practically stopped talking to each other.
27  He used his good arm to support his weight.
28  They have not used this article before, but they are willing to hazard a try.
29  The article can be used to stimulate discussion among students.
30  I used to have fantasies about living in Paris with an artist.