inutile

Example Sentences

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Within the chromosomes, a defective gene may fail in its function because a single fraction of its nucleic acid molecule is aberrant and inutile.

From Time Magazine Archive

He should use as by right and from instinct the material which lay inutile at her woman’s disposal.

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin

The tune of her life had never sounded so discouragingly faint and inutile.

From Visionaries by Huneker, James

A. Cum locatum a censoribus theatrum exstrueretur, P. Cornelio Nasica auctore tamquam inutile et nociturum publicis moribus ex senatus consulto destructum est, populusque aliquamdiu stans ludos spectavit.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

Il y a pourtant un côté par lequel la quatrième églogue peut être rattachée à l’histoire du Christianisme; elle nous révèle un certain état des âmes qui n’a pas été inutile à ses rapides progrès.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.