uselessly
Example Sentences
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I grasp uselessly at the Dragon and Fröjda utensils zip-tied to the display wall at Burbank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 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
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
I spent the rest of the afternoon at home, puttering around uselessly while Michelle and the girls got their hair done.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2020
She was fighting with a broken spear shaft, the other end embedded uselessly in the metal joint of one bull’s shoulder.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
