How to Use public utility in a Sentence

public utility

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  • And there are about 3,000 public utilities in the United States.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
  • The park was leveled, and the grounds now hold office buildings for a public utility.
    — azcentral, 4 Nov. 2014
  • As a public utility, Google search would have to give others a better shot.
    — Dave Yost, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • The body is known as the public utility commission in many other states.
    — Melissa Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2022
  • Google’s critics have said for years that it should be treated like a public utility.
    — Tripp Mickle, WSJ, 8 June 2021
  • The other three are taxes on sales at Nationals Park; public utilities; and rent that the team pays D.C. for the ballpark.
    — Andrew Golden, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
  • For Kucinich, saving the public utility has been a crusade.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The sprawling Spanish-style home is hooked up to public utilities but is designed for more than two weeks of off-grid living.
    — James Tarmybloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The house has central air and is connected to public utilities.
    — Nate Owen, courant.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • With nearly 3 billion users around the world, Facebook has a reach that’s closer to a public utility than a fun social app.
    — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Fire personnel and public utilities workers were at the scene to shut off gas and electricity to the house.
    — Molly Sullivan, sacbee, 27 June 2018
  • He is considered one of the most knowledgeable experts on public utility law in the state.
    — Mark Gillispie, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The spread of the novel coronavirus around the world has made many of us shut-ins and proven conclusively that the internet should be a public utility.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Ryan Keith Cox was an account clerk who had worked in the public utilities department for more than 12 years.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
  • And that spending will be under the oversight of the state public utility commission (PUC).
    — David Roberts, Vox, 5 June 2019
  • Siegele acknowledged the price tag but said the city can acquire the infrastructure through a bond that can be paid off by the public utility over a number of years.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
  • But the center of the action in the United States is now in states and before public utility regulators.
    — Jon Goldin-Dubois, The Denver Post, 4 June 2019
  • And of course the costs for those substations and distribution lines will fall, partly, on the public utilities.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Once a court declares Google a public utility, the marketplace itself would provide the guard rails.
    — Dave Yost, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • Like Google, it should not only be broken up; its core service should be replaced with some kind of free public utility in the near future.
    — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The remainder are oil and gas companies and public utilities; skiers are no longer a focus.
    — Joshua Brusteinbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
  • Musk tends to make things that either are useless or have existed as public utilities for decades.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The first issue in this debate is whether Facebook should be considered a public utility at all.
    — Os Keyes, Wired, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The public utility is saddled with $9 billion in debt and filed for bankruptcy in July.
    — Richard Fausset, Frances Robles and Deborah Acosta, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
  • This, of course, responds to the economic rebound in tandem with some of the worst moments of the Covid-19 lockdown, but also sits in the context of price controls and public utility freezes.
    — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The shooter, DeWayne Craddock, had worked for the city for 15 years as an engineer with the public utilities department.
    — Fox News, 7 June 2019
  • There are no public utilities, and no reliable sources of food or drinking water.
    — Kirk Semple, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • In fact, common carriage is not a more general species of public utility.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 15 July 2021
  • He was appointed to the city’s public utility board and served as vice president of the chamber of commerce before he was elected to city council in 1962.
    — Karen Brainard, Ramona Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Camps must be 10 feet from other camps, public utility infrastructure and private property.
    — Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024

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