become useless

But whatever $54 million antibiotic the bolus of cash might produce will itself become useless after a year or a decade.

If men would cease to be tempted and to sin, the ministry of priests would become useless to them.

If this is repeated a great many times the nut may slacken back so far as to become useless.

The blade is very pliable and not highly tempered, so that in unskilful hands it is apt to bend and become useless.

Every trade law we have made must have been eluded, and become useless, before they could be in such a condition.

The man who, rather than bend his own pride, allows his talents to become useless incurs an awful responsibility.