useless

Example Sentences

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Drones piloted by fiber-optic wires that render jamming useless cruised above an American base in Baghdad.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The illustration showed a cow proudly standing next to a strange collection of useless objects labeled as tools.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

They bounced back from the 17th-century revolution, when the Lords was abolished by a law that declared it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

An example of the aging beliefs that study participants were asked to review and rate was the phrase “The older I get, the more useless I feel.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

“I knew this was useless stuff. Let’s tear it up and sell it to the crows for nests.”

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman