render worthless

Example Sentences

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Exxon’s response then mirrors its position now: That short-term price fluctuations aren’t enough to render worthless wells that would potentially be drilled over decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 16, 2016

But, unfortunately, the dealings of the Senate with money bills generally render worthless the painstaking action of the House.

From Congressional Government A Study in American Politics by Wilson, Woodrow

Its annulment would render worthless many past and present land-titles.

From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Greene, Maria Louise

They might find themselves cured of their modern disease, and in the possession of ideas that would render worthless their whole stock in trade.

From Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history by Dubnow, S. M. (Simon Markovich)

Their incentive was to forestall and annoy Great Britain and render worthless the blood and treasure our country might spend in smashing the dervishes.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet