Example Sentences

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We never grudged millions to burrow beneath New York for light, or for drink or speed, why then should we grudge them for the beautiful inutilities that might make the surface of the city splendid.

From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett

A gentleman, on the contrary, in addition to his other noble inutilities, is useless as an almanac.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

Ulysses Aldrovandus was a celebrated naturalist of the sixteenth century, and his work on natural history, in thirteen folio volumes, contains with much that is valuable a large proportion of fables and inutilities.

From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas

Let none therefore be surprised if our love fastens on these majestic dogmas, by which we are more and more overshadowed, on these higher inutilities which are our vocation.

From Underground Man by Tarde, Gabriel