AIMLESS in a Sentence

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Still, one must look about sometimes; and then I saw this station, these men strolling aimlessly about in the sunshine of the yard.

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 Meanings and Examples of AIMLESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
aimless
 a.  aimlessly drifting
 a.  continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Big Sam looked down and his bare toe traced aimless marks in the road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
2  Her head ached in an aimless way.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  When they were out of the village they began talking again as loud as before, interlarding their talk with the same aimless expletives.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER VII
4  And by chance an escape from this dangerous position presents itself in the form of an aimless and senseless expedition to Africa.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
5  Doubtless both of them understood that the situation had become too serious to lose time in useless words and aimless wrath.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
6  He opened the door of the stove and poked aimlessly at the embers.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
7  Of the swiftly scampering child, all that now remained were two tiny feet, inadequate to her weight, and a tendency to prattle happily and aimlessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  Upstairs she could hear Prissy galloping about like a wild animal and the sound maddened her, for she was galloping just as aimlessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  In all directions expanding in vast irregular circles, and aimlessly swimming hither and thither, by their short thick spoutings, they plainly betrayed their distraction of panic.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
10  The dwellings were scattered rather aimlessly, but they centred about the twin temples of the hamlet, the Methodist, and the Hard-Shell Baptist churches.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
11  I see now that ragged black man sitting on a log, aimlessly whittling a stick.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
12  Up at the great pillared house the tall young son wandered aimlessly about after his father's abrupt departure.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIII
13  Desisting from this, he began to wander about the far end of the field, aimlessly.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
14  Still, one must look about sometimes; and then I saw this station, these men strolling aimlessly about in the sunshine of the yard.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
15  I stood still at the table, beside the chair on which she had sat and looked aimlessly before me.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: X
Example Sentence:
1  This obsession is aimless and brainless and ends with your oblivion in American politics.
2  We wander in some strange wilderness, aimlessly without direction.