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 Grant Martin Overton
The Memorie inutile in which Gozzi has depicted himself with such lifelike realism are sincere and vivacious, and rival Diderot and Rousseau for directness, luminousness and interest.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
It is true that it would have been inutile, for no incident occurred to put the colonists to any painful trial.
From The Secret of the Island by William Henry Giles Kingston
"Hélas, Monsieur, c'est inutile; on donne toujours la même réponse: 'Nichts verstehn,'" for it appears when these complaints are made the Prussian officers pretend not to understand French.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
