uselessness

Example Sentences

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Tired of my uselessness in the kitchen, my Nonna reached out to a local restaurant owner-chef and asked that she allow her grandson the opportunity to receive some formal training in her restaurant.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2024

The thing I love about poetry is its uselessness, the way it is, with a few exceptions, superfluous to capital, difficult to commodify, gratuitous in its insistence on avowing that which has been marked valueless.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023

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

She did not tell anyone about it because it would have been a public recognition of her uselessness.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez