having no use for

Example Sentences

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Now, an environmental science student might be forced to pay for a calculus textbook filled with advanced mathematical proofs despite having no use for it.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024

Baldwin and Giovanni are united, though, in having no use for white critics, so take my admiration for this show with that grain of salt.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022

Trail makes no bones about having no use for Cunanan any more, telling David Madson, “I’m giving him this weekend for old times’ sake, then I’m done with him.”

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2018

We handed them over, having no use for them ourselves.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Bono had, I ascertained, connived to secrete them when we had removed to this house from the town; having no use for them upon his exile, he had left them for me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson