purposeless

Example Sentences

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“So, in a way, my life seems purposeless now,” Wright continues.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

She is back in her teenage clothes — back in her teenage life, feeling purposeless without Elvis' presence telling her what to do or feel.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2023

The indirection is not purposeless; Edelman is building the service roads to his main argument.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2023

In a crisis of this magnitude, finding the emotional space to care about a single death can feel purposeless, unnecessary.

From The Guardian • May 2, 2020

What they feared even more, Celia realized later, was that passion might spare them entirely, that they’d die conventionally, smug and purposeless, having never savored its blackness.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García