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.
• That means your stash of its 20%-off coupons are about to be useless.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
• This doesn’t mean that the pieties are empty or useless.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Choosing the wrong test may be useless, and a waste of time and money.
  — Brandon Peters, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2024
• Also, when—not if—the battery on the phone dies, the compass is useless.
  — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• The best footwear in the world is useless when paired with the little cotton socks that fill most kids’ drawers.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• But the truth was that already by the birth of their daughter he had been rendered useless.
  — Nicole Krauss, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• The sky was a churning, cold tempest; my glasses useless in the hazy mist.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
• Even the best passers in the league are useless without teammates knocking down shots.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2023
• With his left ankle rendered useless, Jones hopped off the field on his right foot.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
• Of course, the truth is that rather than being a useless relic, the core work of the humanities is the cure for what ails us.
  — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
• The bulk of Earth’s water, about 97%, is in salty oceans and thus useless for drinking or growing food.
  — Mark Gongloff, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
• In such cases, a weapon detector at the front door is useless.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
• However, some people feel the need to raise their arms too high, which is plain wrong and useless.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2022
• So an arms control treaty that left out one of the three major powers would be all but useless.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• At one point, Gideon rips the Darksaber out of Bo-Katan's hand, crushing it in his fist and rendering the weapon useless.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• That definition is so broad and so vague as to be useless.
  — Katha Pollitt, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
• There's little that's more useless than a shapeless bra.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2023
• That doesn’t mean ChatGPT and its brethren are useless.
  — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• There are millions of ways to build AI that would be bad, dangerous, useless.
  — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
• Pro: Our Lord and Master, by what name shall we useless humans refer to You?
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
• Most of these have not been for sale for years, but since this is all hardware tied to the cloud, turning off the servers will turn them into useless bricks.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
• But the real task is to pick something that's not boring, generic, or useless.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 15 Nov. 2022
• Worse is when the science cited is so dubious as to be useless.
  — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023
• This client’s closet came with a single shelf and hanging rod, which was useless, since the client didn’t need hanging space.
  — Jillian Kramer, Glamour, 13 Jan. 2023
• The flip top on this affordable option is key so the wipes don't dry out when that useless sticky flap stops being so, well, sticky.
  — Esther Carlstone, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2023
• Millions of Australians woke up on the morning of Nov. 8 to find that their phones were completely useless.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
• The drachmas were totally useless, as Greece has been on the euro since before I was born.
  — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024