How to Use aimless in a Sentence

aimless

adjective
  • Long aimless drives opened up my small teenage world.
    Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • There are more ways to getting that six-pack than just an aimless amount of situps.
    Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Startup ideation doesn’t have to be a solitary, slow, or aimless process.
    Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • And his impulse was to build a show that felt purposely aimless.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Not until four years later does their mixtape find her again, alone and aimless.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 23 June 2022
  • But that's not enough to make up for the tackier, aimless later episodes.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
  • On-premise, there is still a lot of aimless wandering and guessing.
    Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • When there’s nothing in sight except open space, the feeling can be aimless.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 15 May 2026
  • As in those sitcoms, our hero is a single, aimless, middle-aged dad.
    Judy Berman, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • That sense of aimless moral drift seems to have inspired many of their most baffling choices.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
  • But this aimless approach often fails.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The great world spins; tides rise and fall; aimless 20-somethings flirt with danger.
    Hamilton Cain, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • If being entirely aimless isn’t your thing, there is a way to add a bit of structure to it.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 25 May 2025
  • To replace our boring, aimless, frustrating world with a new one made just for us.
    Sam Anderson, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Too many of his dribbles were aimless or ended in backwards passes.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 9 June 2025
  • But other scenes in the footage have a more aimless, roving quality.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 5 Nov. 2021
  • In some ways, the season’s sometimes aimless feeling is part of its purpose.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 27 June 2024
  • Here, aimless hack ‘n slashing will still go far, but there’s more nuance to everything.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Friendship was still intense and silly, but a little less aimless.
    Daisy Jones, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Hotz, a 24-year-old born and raised in Orlando, had been aimless as a kid.
    Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Though the film might feel aimless at times, it’s buoyed by scenes in which the musicians come together to rap and sing.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • For now, El Niño Bola rolls on, sounding aimless.
    E.r. Pulgar, Pitchfork, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Any shred of free time is too easy to fill with more work, more worrying, more commitments, and, of course, more aimless scrolling.
    Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
  • As the game went on, Newcastle struggled to play out from the back, opting for aimless long balls.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • Still, some kids took a few aimless steps, bumping into classmates, desks and cabinets.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2024
  • Anybody this aimless and callow is destined for a comeuppance, of course.
    Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • The large creatures go weeks, even months, without eating in their aimless foraging.
    Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Meetings without purpose are not aimless.
    Nirit Cohen, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • After some aimless small talk, the old woman soon gets down to her real, sinister business.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Liam, once aimless and unhoused, quickly finds purpose in the charade as a husband and father.
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025

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