mindless

Example Sentences

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We all know the feeling of doom-scrolling, the mindless numbing of the brain.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

That “high, mindless scream in the getaway car,” Ebert writes, “provides, for me, a very adequate vision of hell.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

If this vapid, airless, mindless time-waster had subversive designs of being a satire about the first lady of the United States, there’s not much it would have changed.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026

Cutting out mindless, unnecessary daily expenses — like your daily coffee or subscriptions — can be the start of big changes, as author David Bach noted in the book “Start Late, Finish Rich.”

From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026

He hadn’t seen anything but what was really before him—the faces of the four singers, those four ordinary men, cow-eyed and mindless and anguished as they went from sweetness to sourness to sweetness again.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut