Example Sentences

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It’s critical and destructive, a ground-clearing…singularly unuseful when it comes to constructing anything to replace the hypocrisies it debunks.”

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2013

I get the impression that humans have a tough time digesting the firehose of information, both useful and unfortunately unuseful, that the internet is throwing at them.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2010

South Carolina maintains an old and not unuseful custom.

From Time Magazine Archive

They often want Rain in this Country: To supply the Defect of which, I observed in this Garden, as well as others, an Invention not unuseful.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel

This, however, was called a Whig administration; and it will not be unuseful to record the names of those personages who composed this Whig administration.

From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Hunt, Henry