uselessly
- a word derived from useless.
Example Sentences
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I grasp uselessly at the Dragon and Fröjda utensils zip-tied to the display wall at Burbank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
Fewer human beings should be warehoused uselessly in prisons on sentences that are too steep for their crimes.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2022
Inside that haunted house, the family members in “The Humans” are all as trapped as Momo is in her illness, shrieking uselessly into the void.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
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
The rifleman spat sideways and kicked uselessly at the ferns, dislodging raindrops.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
