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
  • 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
  • One of the most powerful ways to make this shift is to make your BI data more useful.
    — Zohar Bronfman, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • That isn't to say the technology isn't useful right now.
    — WIRED, 4 Aug. 2023
  • What are the timeless elements of Bach that could be useful for this time?
    — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Which tracing paper is best? Tracing paper is useful for both those learning to sketch and those drawing freehand.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
  • This is what makes average household income so useful in this analysis of the wealthiest cities in Arkansas.
    — Andrew Depietro, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025

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