useless

Example Sentences

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It was crumpled and useless, not that they could’ve driven it out, anyway; the road was buried in ash and fallen trees.

From Literature

The star appeared as an air stewardess, twirling her way through baggage reclaim while shrugging off a bevy of useless men – a surgeon, a priest, a magician, an astronaut.

From BBC

That is also transforming the image of an accessory that is "completely useless, very traditional, very masculine, and which requires great precision in terms of collar, knot and length", he said.

From Barron's

Mr. Mansfield claims that this aspiration extends all the way back to Niccolò Machiavelli’s proposal to replace useless knowledge with the “effectual truth.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"You may think it's useless, but to them it's the beginning of an idea; a seed."

From Barron's