[ US /ˈjusfəɫnəs/ ]
[ UK /jˈuːsfə‍lnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being of practical use
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How To Use usefulness In A Sentence

  • B.C. voters have a tradition of casting aside parties that have outlived their usefulness.
  • The ones elected to these jobs, so far outside the safe walls of the home base, were usually the girls who had outlived their usefulness at home or the social rejects from the hierarchy.
  • I feel 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. Chapter 1
  • Functionalism as a linguistic approach is different from generative and cognitive approaches in that it makes no claim as to the cognitive reality of the mechanisms it proposes - that matter is irrelevant to its usefulness.
  • How the books (not having been chosen with reference to this great event) were of awkward sizes, and did not make comfortable paving for the bottom of the trunk; whilst folded stockings may be called the packer's delight, from their usefulness to fill up corners. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
  • Finally, the servo test bench and airborne antenna pedestal for parametric modeling and simulation to illustrate the usefulness of this analysis platform.
  • By the early 1930s grand juries were generally agreed to have outlived their usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Factors that may limit the usefulness of tanks in clearance operations include the following.
  • It largely reduces the strength of recoil during shooting, but its greatest usefulness is apparent during bare-hand fighting.
  • Its usefulness will often justify a path which in theory may appear quite arbitrary or badly traced. The Education of a Gardener
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