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Example sentences for: utility

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So, for instance, the names of the farmed freshwater crayfish, koonac , and marron , have only short histories of usage in English, coincident with their utility, though they were first recorded in the 19th century.
The utility of a method is also a function of the human effort, i.e., time, required to evaluate a given image.
But my favorite story of the week is from yesterday's New York Times . A group of researchers in Texas tried to determine whether sports utility vehicles (which I like to call "SUVs") clog intersections and slow down traffic.
"Is this another one of those commercials to convince women they can drive sport utility vehicles?
Are you worried, perhaps, that, when most of your neighbors are buying their kilowatts from elsewhere, your local utility will no longer gladly send crews to restore your power in an ice storm?