purposeless

Example Sentences

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“So, in a way, my life seems purposeless now,” Wright continues.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

Meanwhile Kendall has become, in every sense of the word, purposeless now that the competition has finished and he has lost.

From Salon • May 30, 2023

“Real life is purposeless, anarchic, accidental, chaotic, unjust,” he said during a recent video call.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

In a crisis of this magnitude, finding the emotional space to care about a single death can feel purposeless, unnecessary.

From The Guardian • May 2, 2020

Seeing Miss Perumal again would be nice, but he would be in the same pickle as before: out of place among the other children, purposeless and lonely.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart