uselessly
Example Sentences
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Even anger is just more abject excess, to be flushed away uselessly and memorialized only by a shiver of disgust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
Fewer human beings should be warehoused uselessly in prisons on sentences that are too steep for their crimes.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 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
I could see how the back wheels were spinning uselessly, kicking back rooster tails of mud in the dark.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
