How to Use ineffective in a Sentence

ineffective

adjective

• The treatment was ineffective against the disease.
• But many of us know that yelling is an ineffective way to get your kids to listen to you or take action.
  — Vicki Glembocki, Parents, 19 Mar. 2024
• But slice through any chunk of firewood and hit dirt or a rock, and your blade can go from sharp to ineffective in a second.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
• Otherwise, the user might find the gun painful or, on the other side of the spectrum, ineffective.
  — Amy Schlinger, wsj.com, 30 Sep. 2023
• So, many of my best weapons, most of which applied a fire status, were ineffective.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• But as poor as the Clippers held on to the ball, the Raptors proved just as ineffective at shooting it, just 39% to enter halftime tied.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• The taser, according to authorities, was ineffective and the two were engaged in a fight on the ground.
  — John Sharp | , al, 7 Apr. 2023
• The goat’s loose skin made the dog’s lunges at its throat ineffective, flummoxing the dog, and the goat couldn’t work out why the dog — in lieu of head-butting back with its horns — kept nipping from beneath.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• With the oldest grandson, when he was bullied, the police got involved when the school was ineffective.
  — Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2023
• The entire City Council has been silent and ineffective.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• Of this year’s first nine installments, the opener is by far the best, while the others range from uneven to largely ineffective.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2024
• The front-end plows used for routine road maintenance had been rendered ineffective by the immense amount of snow.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• This week, an advisory panel to the FDA voted 16–0 that the drug is ineffective orally, which could pave the way for the agency to finally pull the drug.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
• Drug to prevent preterm birth pulled from market, years after it was shown ineffective.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• But the effort proved ineffective and in 2022, France began withdrawing its troops from the region.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2023
• The country's police force proved more and more ineffective, crippled by a lack of resources and a subsequent lack of resolve.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• Musk isn’t the only CEO to find hardball tactics ineffective.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
• But those measures have proven wildly ineffective so far, at least where one major ad partner — the NFL — is concerned.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
• The Taser was ineffective, and the man stepped toward the officers with the machete raised over his head, according to the investigation.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
• The Orioles signed Givens for $5 million in the offseason, but he’s pitched just four ineffective innings in between IL stints for knee and shoulder injuries.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2023
• The repair shop strike has been criticized as ineffective.
  — WIRED, 2 Nov. 2023
• With his trial just two weeks away and no sign of a plea deal in sight, pressure on his parents could represent a tactic that proved ineffective with his former friends and colleagues.
  — Byleo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 20 Sep. 2023
• Glossip was convicted and sentenced to death in June 1998, though this was overturned on appeal due to ineffective counsel.
  — Brynn Gingras, CNN, 5 May 2023
• Over a two-month period, some commentators and politicians took to op-ed pieces and social media to say the study proved masks weren't needed the whole time and that mandates had been ineffective.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2023
• But excluding too much data can lead to skewed results that are biased or ineffective.
  — Michael O’Malley, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• While ineffective decision-making is my own cross to bear, the anxiety that informed it in this instance is a symptom of a problem that runs far deeper.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• Message Training Having the best messaging in the world is of little value if the medium and messenger are ineffective.
  — Rob Forrester, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• His petitions and lawsuits helped get more than two dozen dangerous or ineffective drugs removed from the market.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
• Only a trickle of aid has been reaching northern Gaza via land, but aid groups have criticized airdrops as ineffective.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• And sure enough, Rodón has been almost equal parts injured and ineffective, with two stints on the injured list (forearm to open the season, hamstring in August) and four of his nine starts featuring four or more runs allowed.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024