useless

Example Sentences

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In other hands, a film of such unadorned fatalism might seem useless, an exercise in emotional sadism.

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 closed my eyes and started to pray, silently at first and then with more courage and conviction, but my prayers were useless against her.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall