Example Sentences

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Judge Williams said "the agony of the family's loss is all the greater for its needlessness".

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

We’ve already interrogated the needlessness of this movie enough, so I’ll give it some credit for what it did well: making me laugh.

From The Verge • Oct. 26, 2017

Central to Young’s outrage and sense of betrayal by his president was the needlessness of the war in Iraq.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2014

The most appalling aspect of the incident was the needlessness of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

As to the needlessness of the movements of troops I am a better judge than the newspaper reporters who write about it.

From Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78 by Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)