Example Sentences

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Before the audience has its bearings, “Hell Is for Children” is blaring meaninglessly onto a set that is meant to be “modern, post-war Verona” but looks more like Stalingrad under a disco strobe light.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

As he worked a crowd, “His eyes rolled, his body language was inappropriate and weird, and his hand flew around meaninglessly in odd directions.”

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2020

That’s not the same as describing the press writ large—let alone the even more meaninglessly capacious term “the media”—as “dishonest.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 28, 2016

It also asks an even more fundamental question about representation in language: How can we point to something in the world with complete accuracy, without also being meaninglessly redundant?

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2016

"This is the first time your stock has been touched," said John, meaninglessly.

From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell