USELESS in a Sentence

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This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that Thenardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further.

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 Meanings and Examples of USELESS
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useless
 a.  not expected to achieve the intended purpose or desired outcome
Classic Sentence: (167 in 12 pages)
1  Madame Magloire had once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
2  Voltaire made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that God is useless.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
3  The Parisians stared indifferently at this useless thing.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
4  , the civilized world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty hours, one hundred and fifty thousand useless shots.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
5  This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that Thenardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
6  Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, and you have the gamin.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE
7  He took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
8  Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellations.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
9  She thought him insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and extremely ugly.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER
10  It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
11  It is useless to remove me from this spot.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VI—THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE
12  There was no waste of useless powder.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
13  Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in useless expenditure of them.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
14  Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless and does not accept it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
15  Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little effort made by her memory.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  It's useless arguing/to argue with them.
2  Her efforts to avoid him proved useless.
3  The doctor concluded that further treatment would be useless.
4  It is useless to muse upon past errors.
5  No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.
6  A car is useless without petrol.
7  I consider it useless discussing the matter with them.
8  The new employee was useless and so the management got shot of him after only a week.
9  Astronauts will make a final attempt today to rescue a communications satellite from its useless orbit.
10  Don't expend all your time on such a useless job.
11  Most pre-prepared weight loss products are next to useless.
12  I am pretty useless at everything except music.
13  The quality ranged from acceptable to worse than useless.
14  He carts all sorts of useless stuff about.
15  But if there had been no stony obstruction there the labor would have been useless still, for if the beam had been wholly cut away Injun Joe could not have squeezed his body under the door, and he knew it.