How to Use useless in a Sentence

useless

adjective

• I made a useless attempt at fixing the leak.
• The tent is useless in wet conditions.
• Drugs are useless in treating the condition.
• Even the best playbook is useless if no one reads it.
  — Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• My right foot pressed into the brake lever was useless.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Mar. 2026
• The fear is not that AI is useless.
  — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• The chain saw became useless when its blade broke on nails in the floor.
  — SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Clorox wipes will dry out and be useless if stashed in a hot garage or car trunk for days.
  — oregonlive, 8 Oct. 2020
• That doesn’t mean this research is useless.
  — ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
• That means your stash of its 20%-off coupons are about to be useless.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
• My kitchen junk drawer was bulging at the seams with all kinds of useless junk.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2021
• My legs were gooey and useless, my arms burned, my lungs begged for oxygen.
  — Martin Suarez, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025
• Bruce’s Wing Chun skills were all but useless.
  — Jeff Chang september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
• But that neck would have been useless if their brain could not adapt to control it.
  — Tom Roseberry, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2019
• No useless buzzwords or graphs.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 May 2026
• Of course, all that info is useless if your drugstore is sold out.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 4 Mar. 2020
• Why waste valuable pocket space with tools that are useless to you?
  — New Atlas, 7 July 2025
• That does not make the Registry useless.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026
• Choosing the wrong test may be useless, and a waste of time and money.
  — Brandon Peters, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2024
• Sarah has a useless husband and a useless job.
  — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
• Likewise, even the best dashboard is useless if your team doesn't use it.
  — Ramachander Rao Thallada, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• The forty-five minutes felt useless; the pre-meeting did not.
  — Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• That does not mean low multiples are useless.
  — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• As sweat poured from his every pore, a make-up team rushed in with useless towelettes.
  — Deborah Wilker, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
• Tomatoes will grow in plastic, clay, and stone pots, but a pot that lacks drainage holes is useless.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 May 2024
• And this is not to say that the guidelines are entirely useless.
  — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025
• But at a certain point in adulthood, prayer began to feel useless to me.
  — Terry Ward, CNN Money, 4 May 2026
• In such cases, a weapon detector at the front door is useless.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
• Even past behaviour is a useless guide for what to expect.
  — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
• The police and public might be useless here, but Mia won’t give up.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 July 2024