uselessness

Example Sentences

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Sankey said he talked backstage about the uselessness of neckties during media days in Atlanta a year ago.

From Washington Times • Jul. 17, 2023

Expounding a personal philosophy of honor and its uselessness in “L’onore! Ladri!”

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2023

That realization expanded into an existential uselessness throughout the day.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2023

I’m tired of hearing my voice saying these truths, which are as self-evident as the uselessness of terror and as constant as the repeating moment of pain.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

It was the combination of Milton’s disgust at the antiwar movement and Tessie’s sense of uselessness that led them to begin reading the entire one-hundred-and-fifteen-volume set of the Great Books series.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides