Example Sentences

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The “Rock,” as it has sometime been referred to, sits uselessly in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, criminally underutilized as a tourist destination.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

Meanwhile, in some intellectual quarters, “humanism” is seen as a mask for elitism, bourgeois complacency or worse — when it isn’t dismissed entirely as a uselessly squishy concept.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2023

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

Leicester had been good value up until then, with Spurs uncharacteristically nervous, but with Chalmers reduced to hobbling uselessly on the left wing, defeat was almost inevitable.

From The Guardian • May 15, 2021

But now he picked up the receiver, and experimentally let his fingers dial; and sure enough, he found that they recollected easily what his mind had strained uselessly to remember.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen