uselessly

Example Sentences

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Even anger is just more abject excess, to be flushed away uselessly and memorialized only by a shiver of disgust.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

Inside that haunted house, the family members in “The Humans” are all as trapped as Momo is in her illness, shrieking uselessly into the void.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021

And after they bounce around uselessly, they're hoping to swindle more of their obscenely rich friends into doing the same.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2021

Leicester had been good value up until then, with Spurs uncharacteristically nervous, but with Chalmers reduced to hobbling uselessly on the left wing, defeat was almost inevitable.

From The Guardian • May 15, 2021

There was Crook Arm, whose left arm dangled down uselessly by his side with two of his fingers missing.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep