uselessly
Example Sentences
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The “Rock,” as it has sometime been referred to, sits uselessly in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, criminally underutilized as a tourist destination.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
Meanwhile, in some intellectual quarters, “humanism” is seen as a mask for elitism, bourgeois complacency or worse — when it isn’t dismissed entirely as a uselessly squishy concept.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
As in conventional power plants, much of the heat produced will dissipate uselessly rather than transfer to the water that turns into steam to drive a turbine.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
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
My jaw flaps uselessly for a moment before I find words.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
