uselessly

Example Sentences

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The “Rock,” as it has sometime been referred to, sits uselessly in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, criminally underutilized as a tourist destination.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

As in conventional power plants, much of the heat produced will dissipate uselessly rather than transfer to the water that turns into steam to drive a turbine.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2022

Inside that haunted house, the family members in “The Humans” are all as trapped as Momo is in her illness, shrieking uselessly into the void.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021

And after they bounce around uselessly, they're hoping to swindle more of their obscenely rich friends into doing the same.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2021

His lips were so pale they were almost white, and his tongue seemed to flop around uselessly in his mouth as he spoke, as if it kept getting in the way.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar