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How to Use to little/no effect in a Sentence

to little/no effect

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  • Porter has even tried boiling rhizomorphs or dunking them in acid, to little effect.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Davis fought the officers -- who used their stun guns to no effect -- and tried to get back into his wife’s car, police said.
    — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • After a stun gun was used to no effect, police said there was an exchange of gunfire and Reed was killed.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Cornell’s mouth, then hit him over the head with a nearby lamp, to no effect, Warren told the jury.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • For a decade and a half she was put on one medication after another—22 in all—to little effect.
    — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 22 July 2022
  • The group has been the target of recriminations and sanctions, to no effect.
    — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • But a diagnosis had little to no effect on whether the person committed a new crime in the future, the report found.
    — Moe Clark, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The city council ultimately agreed to meet with the homeless delegation, to little effect.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The Indian government has tried to boost homegrown phone manufacturers, but to little effect.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Over the past several weeks, Biden released millions of barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to little effect.
    — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 8 June 2022
  • The report said officers tried using PepperBall launchers at Porter to no effect, and an electroshock weapon also didn’t subdue Porter because of his thick winter coat.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 June 2022
  • Papa John’s, which was formerly headquartered in Louisville and has a large presence in the city, announced its suspension of all corporate operations in Russia last week, though the move has little to no effect on Wynne's operations.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2022

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