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

She is back in her teenage clothes — back in her teenage life, feeling purposeless without Elvis' presence telling her what to do or feel.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2023

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

They’ve come to perceive themselves as dispensable, uncared-for, purposeless.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2020

She found herself facing the future with dread, seeing only “a long stretch of purposeless years with nothing to live for.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield