utility

Example Sentences

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They stuck together through their 1981 World Series championship season, after which Lopes was traded to the Oakland Athletics for Lance Hudson, a utility player who never made the major leagues.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The new law permanently provides full expensing, allowing businesses to immediately deduct the full cost of new investments, just as they do for labor or utility costs.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Friends and loved ones continued to comb the area for signs of Cynthia, searching creeks and sewer drains and putting up flyers on utility poles.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

While teams excel in most innovation, lone inventors can have an advantage in utility patents for inventions difficult to separate into components.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

I stopped next to a utility pole for a bit, exhaled heavily, and threw some angry punches in the air.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah