How to Use senseless in a Sentence

senseless

adjective

• Don't be such a senseless idiot!
• Adding to the senseless crime is the fact the eagle wasn’t alone in the nest when it was shot.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
• None of the Falcone movies are very good, but this is the most senseless.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
• But the bad here outweighs the good for a league that doesn't need to take senseless risks.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• Which means a senseless tax code is the friend of politicians.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• This was senseless the first time around and senseless again.
  — Carolyn Burt, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
• Our thoughts are with the victims of these senseless acts.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 4 July 2018
• The evil of one man has produced these senseless deaths.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2021
• The news of this senseless violence comes as a shock to all of us.
  — oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2019
• Those who knew Kahle called her death a senseless tragedy.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
• The killings seem senseless, but, says the author, the city can do more to grasp their causes.
  — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
• The senseless act that took his life, while on the job, was horrible.
  — Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2017
• May the peace of the Almighty wash over those hurting after this senseless tragedy.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 29 May 2017
• If somebody takes you deep, just get him out the next time — don’t drill him in the ribs and start a senseless fight.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2018
• The neighbor who was with the victim said the shooting was senseless.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al.com, 23 July 2019
• News of each senseless gun death in this country rips open a painful wound for me.
  — Lucy McBath, Cosmopolitan, 23 June 2017
• This was a cowardly and senseless act that has led to the loss of a great athlete.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 6 Sep. 2024
• The senseless charnel houses of Verdun and the Somme found their match in Bakhmut.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• The feeling that the whole thing is senseless may be part of why ratings for the speech are largely down.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2019
• But in the long shadow of senseless acts, each found a soul mate who could grasp what the other had been through.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
• Kim Boykin: These deaths are so senseless and so preventable.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2024
• The Broncos share in the outrage (and) concern over these senseless deaths.
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 2 June 2020
• For her to be killed in such a senseless way is unfathomable.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
• There was space to just forget; there was time to gather ourselves and make sense of the senseless.
  — Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 26 May 2017
• Every dollar wasted on a senseless program or stolen by a fraudster is one that can’t go to a worthy cause (or back to taxpayers).
  — Carrie Lukas, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• The recent senseless death of an innocent woman by ICE goons could be the last straw.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2026
• And now this- a senseless killing of an American by ICE.
  — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
• Join me in praying for the victims of such senseless violence and all the families of this church.
  — Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2026
• My heart is with her family and loved ones, who are now grieving a senseless tragedy.
  — Dave Savini, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
• Aden believes life is senseless, arbitrary.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026