How to Use harmless in a Sentence

harmless

adjective

• It was just a harmless joke.
• We're just having a bit of harmless fun.
• His ideas seem harmless enough.
• Shane is rightly off-put by the man, who seems harmless.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• Then a pair of harmless singles in the fourth and fifth were the only knocks recorded against him all day.
  — Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2023
• Most of those are harmless, but there are a few types that swimmers should be on the lookout for.
  — Adam Benson The Sun News (myrtle Beach, al, 9 July 2023
• At the time, the NIH said the compound was thought to be harmless to humans, animals and plants.
  — Justin Gamble, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
• Our list of epic ideas includes a range of stunts from harmless and goofy to downright saucy.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
• Your life might be on the line, whereas our bullies were harmless.
  — Time, 13 Jan. 2023
• The new vaccine, called Arexvy, contains a harmless version of a protein found on the outside of the virus.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
• The bet is that new, clean stuff will make the old, dirty stuff harmless or irrelevant.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
• Most are harmless ripoffs—young women trying to cash in on the Zeitgeist.
  — Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
• Hundreds of space rocks hit Earth every year, and most are harmless.
  — Corinne Purtill, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2023
• The airspace was reopened once the object was found to be harmless, said Daniel Voda, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The powder was later found to be harmless, police said.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• Urine color may not tell the whole story, and a change in color can have a harmless culprit such as food dye.
  — Kathleen Felton, Health, 26 May 2023
• There are many types of E. coli — a type of bacteria — and some are harmless and even live in people’s intestines.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• Most strains are harmless, but some can cause severe illness, the release said.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
• Experts say those proteins found in the vaccines are harmless.
  — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Reid points out that quite a lot of the visible sludge could be a harmless species of algae and not the dreaded cyanobacteria.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
• In some cases, newborns will experience hair loss at the site of swelling, but that is harmless, and the hair will grow back.
  — Maria Carter, Parents, 8 Nov. 2023
• The other bug was more harmless: on the lock screen weather widget, the snow icon was sometimes showing up as just a file icon.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 7 Nov. 2023
• He was handed a gun that was supposed to be harmless but in fact contained one live bullet.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
• Unlike a tornado, funnel clouds are not in touch with the ground and are, thus, harmless at ground level.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
• Other items like sports equipment may seem harmless, but could be dangerous in the wrong hands.
  — Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2022
• But why does the histamine howitzer sometimes get trained on harmless sesame seeds or soybeans?
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• But new research indicates that, relative to their size, the snakes that can gulp down the largest meals are harmless, three-foot-long egg eaters.
  — Kate Golembiewski, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Regardless of their cause, hiccups are a harmless part of babyhood.
  — Denise Schipani, Parents, 22 June 2023
• The cosmic smash-up was carried out on a small and harmless space rock known as Dimorphos, which is about 6.8 million miles from Earth.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2022
• Is that an aneurysm waiting to burst, or a harmless vascular variant?
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 7 May 2024