How To Use Aimless In A Sentence

It was a book which fulfilled his desire to discover a place seldom visited, and was also to influence this once-aimless student to eventually find a direction, and become a travel writer.
Woodrow and Aiden Tyler Dawson are childhood friends whose aimlessness in day-to-day life is matched only by their passion for building flame-spewing machinery to "prepare for the apocalypse. Farihah Zaman: SXSW 2011 Dispatch Two: Coming of Age to a Theater Near You
Ross drove aimlessly through the outer suburbs, sharing the wide, wet road with the occasional noctambulant alley cat, a carload of cheering carousers, and electric mini-van delivering milk.
Outside in the street student protest marches wander aimlessly by.
For a long time, what does happen seems almost aimless: scenic walks, music, casual flirtations.

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Chapters that lack such profundity seem aimless, padding perhaps. Times, Sunday Times
Being able to wander around aimlessly is the best way to see things that you'd normally never see, new bands.
The captain and his crew were left drifting aimlessly on the tiny raft after their boat, the Gullborg, exploded south of Shetland almost 32 years ago.
Everyone who's normal should flop around their homes aimlessly without a stitch of clothing on at least once a month.
She is paging through a magazine aimlessly.
The bombing of wedding parties reveals much about the directionless and aimless war in Afghanistan.
But he quickly went back into his shell, meandering around aimlessly in midfield. The Sun
We watch his feet as he wanders in aimless circles trying to determine his direction.
He added: 'His driving was rather aimless as he was trying to work out what to do. The Sun
So me and my younger bro were like "angsty" and "aimless" cuz we were trying to find a thing to "do" to forget this hunger. An hour and 7 minutes. non-stop, fingers work.
You are trapesing aimlessly through the the already too crowded streets.
Daughtry cried, at sight of the whale flurrying the water with aimless, gigantic splashings. CHAPTER XV
Despite his tendency to waffle on aimlessly, he does on occasion write things that are worth reading…
Battles occur without screen transitions, thank goodness, and enemies are always visible, wandering MMO-like (aka 'aimlessly') in their invisible stables. PCWorld
The scrawny, stumpy plants - in winter a mass of black aimless twigs with a few odd drops of white fiber still clinging to them - is hardly pure or virgin.
Tiny rivers of blood trickled aimlessly down his hand.
After several hours of aimless searching they were getting low on fuel.
His magnificent grey velvet suit seemed to be floating aimlessly in a raging sea, as if petrified in the expectation of waking.
Austin is also a fine place to eat Tex-Mex, take in live music, shoot pool in a bar, visit the South Austin Popular Culture Center, or if you're really feeling indie, loiter aimlessly in a huge, soulless out-of-town shopping mall. Film-inspired holidays: The Indie Flick
But the alternative is to be responsible for a baby spirit wandering aimless and alone through the netherworld.
When uncle Billy, in one of his characteristic empty-headed gestures, accidentally lost his score, the one that would redeem him from undeserved obscurity, something broke in him and he ran screaming out into the streets, meandering aimlessly, meaningless sounds burbling from his lips until he wound up here, on the bridge, teetering over the edge on the verge of a long, life-crushing fall into the dark waters below. The envelopes
Nay what are all errors and perversities of his, even those stealings of ribbons aimless confused miseries and vagabondisms, if we will interpret them kindly, but the blinkard dazzlements and staggerings to and fro of a man sent on an errand he is too weak for, by a path he cannot yet find? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
She spied a lone figure staggering aimlessly across a recently ploughed field just north of the farmhouse.
The stroll looks innocuously aimless enough, random conversation and desultory gaits all firmly in place.
You can see bulging veins in foreheads as determined gift-hunters try to fight through the meandering, aimless shoppers.
We drove into the city and cruised around aimlessly for an hour or so.
The advice isn't entirely remiss, but over the years, such glib counsel has resulted in a preponderance of breezy, aimless books long on episodic family humour but short on meaning.
Again he paced down the narrow gray corridor, aimlessly and planlessly, for what seemed miles and miles. The Moon of Skulls
Further, this conception renders purposeful art at best aimless and at worst nonsensical.
Perhaps she hopes to halve the processing time it currently takes to sift through the various minerals she must analyze, or perhaps she needs a younger version to 'aimlessly' crawl toward that Army weapons depot, blinking her 'eyes' in rapid succession at key strategic weak spots without arousing suspicion. Gawker
But it was equally unpleasant to drift aimlessly through the blackness of space, all the while abiding either the fortuity of happening upon errant matter or the slow, foreordained approach of death.
List the malls, boutiques and department stores you aim to check out in order to eliminate aimless window-shopping.
The stroll looks innocuously aimless enough, random conversation and desultory gaits all firmly in place.
I'm trying hard not to take this as an indictment of my efforts, assuring myself it's symptomatic of our age, an aimless seeking without focus.
Ethics, therefore, as the philosophy of the ultimate purpose of the world can only proclaim the aimlessness of the cosmic process and seek to put an end to it by stilling the will.
One wept, face on her knees; the other two stared haggardly at nothing, one of them plucking aimlessly at her skirt. A Crown of Swords
Back in 1996, just after I graduated college, I drifted for a time rootless and aimless.
Charles H. Baker Jr., in his indispensable treatise on dispensables, "The Gentleman's Companion," describes the effects of regular absinthe-bibbing: "It does nibble the keen edge off the brain until a man becomes a sorry sort of thing; aimless, listless, and generally -- shockingly -- lacking. Sampling Absinthe's Dubious Charms
We can think of no better way for our young people to squander their postcollegiate aimlessness. Laugh Out Loud Legal News
In this case the protagonists are two brothers - weak, aimless Aston and aggressive, controlling Mick - and Davies, the tramp who inveigles himself into their lives.
Nancy wander for hour aimlessly along the intertwining road and footpath.
Sadly, most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball.
I feel I have had the same slightly aimless life that my father did. Times, Sunday Times
If your childhood was like mine, it was marked by days spent tromping aimlessly in the mud, wading in creeks, and building forts in the forest.
Flutes, saxophones, clarinets, trumpets and bassoons share the spotlight and take frequent solos that, like the vocals, often ramble aimlessly.
The rule, Sic vos non vobis, never altogether to be got rid of in mens Industry, now presses with such incubus weight, that Industry must shake it off, or utterly be strangled under it; and, alas, can as yet but gasp and rave, and aimlessly struggle, like one in the final deliration. Paras. 20-39
The second half, largely spent wellying the ball aimlessly into Wigan territory, was unedifying stuff, in which only Dzeko, Agüero and Milner offered any attacking invention at all and only Hart's fine save from McCarthy – City's magnificent keeper is being presented with the man-of-the-match bubbly as I type – stopped Wigan equalising. Wigan Athletic 0 Manchester City 1 | minute-by-minute report
Didn't we all, every one of us, waste hours -- days, even -- aimlessly, purposelessly clicking links from one site to the next, not knowing where we would go and then not knowing where our hours went? Jeff Jarvis: The Distraction Trope
I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble.
He channel surfed aimlessly as I stared blankly at the TV.
In my experience it tends to get frittered away on TV channel-hopping, window shopping, aimless net surfing or general navel-gazing.
he wandered around aimlessly
Here was he, the individual, very possibly placed on -- at all events, infesting -- a particular planet for a considerable number of years; the planet was so elaborately constructed, so richly clothed with trees and valleys and uplands and running waters and multitudinary grass-blades, and the body that housed Felix Kennaston was so intricately wrought with tiny bones and veins and sinews, with sockets and valves and levers, and little hairs which grew upon the body like grass-blades about the earth, that it seemed unreasonable to suppose this much cunning mechanism had been set agoing aimlessly: and so, he often wondered if he was not perhaps expected to devote these years of human living to some intelligible purpose? The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
I felt pretty useless, and began to drift around aimlessly, asking if anyone needed help.
He seems to have worried about the aimless guest, that individual who would wander about in desultory manner, constantly amazed yet never really subjecting the exhibits to serious study. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
Without this switch mutant amoebas extended false feet called pseudopodia in all directions and wandered aimlessly as Ras flickered on and off at random points on their surfaces. Media Newswire
Â With a whole new League around the corner, the few remaining members of the JLA have been dealing with a growing sense of unrest and aimlessness. Review: Justice League of America #38 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Hence, the aimless kicking of the England team. Times, Sunday Times
The sun was shining brightly, illuminating the soft, downy clouds that floated aimlessly about in the clear blue skies.
The place was cluttered and cozy, filled with knickknacks and pets: a cageful of ornamental finches whose aimless twittering gave Joanna a whole new insight into the term "birdbrained"; Pella's two fat pugs about whom Joanna, a cat person, privately agreed with the Regent; and, to Joanna's great delight, a five-foot boa constrictor dozing in wintry torpor in a big glass cabinet built into the side of the chimney. The Silicon Mage
Her strolls became aimless wanderings and she hated the lack of sunlight.
Ross drove aimlessly through the outer suburbs, sharing the wide, wet road with the occasional noctambulant alley cat, a carload of cheering carousers, and electric mini-van delivering milk.
Most of the people it seemed spent their time walking around aimlessly or staring and marvelling at the fires in pits outside their homes.
He did not come to save his people from aimlessness, poverty or political adversity.
A lone survivor was found in a life raft floating aimlessly in the ocean.
I feel I have had the same slightly aimless life that my father did. Times, Sunday Times
Many of his novels resemble the telling of a dream conveyed with all its inconsistencies, its aimlessness; enigmatic narratives, balanced somewhere between the unspeakable and that which must be told.
You throw caution to the wind and amble aimlessly around fields bathing in inspirational pastels swaths that compel poets to compose poetry and Your inability to access the adumbral profundity of - Acephalous
You probably think that I've just been prattling away aimlessly on these pages for the past three and a half years, immune to the vagaries of the wonderful world of weblogs.
I make a half-hearted attempt to clean my room but end up surfing the internet aimlessly.
Lots of battling in midfield, then aimless punts forward to chase.
Combine sunshine and white sand, long aimless bimbles and brown toes.
Sadly, most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball.
It's a great relief for me to finally find this song, and be able to play it at my leisure, rather than just whistle an aimless tune to myself.
Each zine is extensively tagged, so aimless search is a thing of the past. Pdf-mags.com: Aggregator for Zine-ophiles
The aimless kicking from backs to backs and the running straight into contact is pure rugby league and has no place in our game. Times, Sunday Times
There are dozens of young hares running about aimlessly in the fields while young cock pheasants are crowing their heads off in every garden and potato patch.
This is again a tribute to the producer's ability to involve the youth in something other than aimless time wasting or even worse.
The seeming aimlessness of the Wall Street protestors may reflect that they are raging against their own machine. Not All the Rage
This approach has led many to wonder if the apparent madness in the method is deliberate or if he is fumbling around aimlessly.
Some people keep wandering aimlessly from womb to tomb. They seek nothing and achieve nothing. RVM
The reviews hit the nail on the head ... we can't care because Lady Christina is fluffy and the Doctor is an aimless drifter. More Doctor Who Updating...for the Easter Special
Vincent spends his days driving aimlessly about the French interior, stopping on occasion to read his newspaper in a park or to drink coffee in a roadside cafe.
It's not aimlessly hitting putts on a putting green. Times, Sunday Times
Being a tourist is all too often an aimless and passive existence. Times, Sunday Times
Emerging from their apparently aimless meanderings came an essential truthfulness, a revelation of how things are.
In both cases he was collecting an aimless, long pass. Times, Sunday Times
This is a troubling image, redolent of something locked in an aimless subterranean existence.
She walked into the direction of the Library, as I continued my aimless wandering down the halls.
While they wisely stuck to their game plan of short passing and quick movement, the Hoops reverted to hopeful long balls and aimless passes into space.
The tirades can be leaden and repetitive; casual chatter between cohosts occasionally feels slack and aimless; and some of the non-Franken jokes reach for a humor they can't quite attain.
He worried about his son's aimlessness and lack of ambition.
Yet, paradoxically, hers can be a slightly aimless existence. Times, Sunday Times
Aimlessly I wander back into our room, and poke through the bag we brought, choosing a plain, undecorated yellow dress.
Street lights fail to work, litter is strewn everywhere, vandalism is rife, and adolescents roam the streets aimlessly.
PRESLEY: I think it sort of happened all at a good period where I had just gone through my second divorce and was kind of aimless and somebody -- Foster -- David Foster came. CNN Transcript May 6, 2003
A couple of tracks meander aimlessly so that by the end of the album I'm left with the feeling that the band didn't quite know which direction to take.
My keen eyes found a small kid meandering around the area aimlessly.
She meandered the streets aimlessly, little sandals patting against the cobblestones - following half a thought and half a memory.
It was a book which fulfilled his desire to discover a place seldom visited, and was also to influence this once-aimless student to eventually find a direction, and become a travel writer.
When he took up the job in 1992 the station was anxious, aimless and unhappy, and he was regarded with some suspicion as a London-anointed axeman who had come to slash and burn more budgets and jobs.
SAW 85-92 ends with the ho-hum "Actium," whose aimless thumping, gurgling, clicking, and clonking become monotonous well before it ends after nearly eight minutes. Epinions Recent Content for Home
But while an old and outworn humanist tradition is allowed to prevail, while the studies of the average passman are allowed to be diffuse, desultory, and aimless, and of a kind from which it is useless to expect either animation or precision, so long will a blight rest upon the education of the country. From a College Window
Flutes, saxophones, clarinets, trumpets and bassoons share the spotlight and take frequent solos that, like the vocals, often ramble aimlessly.
He knew of an adolescent girl who had been brought on three weekends to the hospital in Tullamore by gardaí who had found her wandering aimlessly.
Jung believed that the more secular, materialistic, and compulsively extraverted our civilization became, the greater the unhappiness, senselessness and aimlessness of our lives.
Even what was supposed to be the ultimate taboo, murder, has been demystified and wanders our streets aimlessly every other weekend.
Old men and women wander aimlessly around what used to be narrow streets and gardens. Times, Sunday Times
Ivy wandered aimlessly in her chemise and petticoats, too distraught to return to her quarters and dress.
And yet, for some reason, we're largely aimless, apathetic, and narcissistic.
Rather than wandering around aimlessly, the ovoid twosome decided to visit a nearby castle to obtain directions.
See, you may think this is just an aimless ramble, but in fact it's all carefully thought out and planned right down to the last semi-colon.
Here's the American Heritage Dictionary on "maundering": 1. To talk incoherently or aimlessly. "It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough."
American hard rockers Amen have been quiet in the UK but have signed a major deal in the States and the shambolic Alfie are still dawdling along albeit somewhat aimlessly.
Even now Skipton's car parks are chock-a-block on a warm summer's day and tourists drive round aimlessly and with increasing frustration.
The commonly-held belief is that bank holiday weekends are just an excuse to laze around, be generally aimless and not do very much at all.
In those days, I am firm matriculate, overflow in the library everyday stroll aimlessly.
This morning, I stumble downstairs in the zombielike pre-coffee state and wander aimlessly around the kitchen.
Lightning flashed hazily behind the cloud, away to the north, like an aimless searchlight. THE LAST RAVEN
After a few aimless years of drifting, he tries to find and establish ethnic roots similar to his own in order to rekindle the principles his father tried to instill in him.
Babel earns Holland a corner to force the entire stadium onto the edge of their seats, but Cocu's header is completely aimless… cor blimey!
The star gives a skilful performance as an aimless man who has drifted to great lengths to escape his rich family. Times, Sunday Times
These units of meaning may not ultimately accumulate, but that's hardly the point; Amato forces his reader to acknowledge the fundamental falseness, absurdity, aimlessness, and finally emptiness of demotic linguistic conventions. Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
He's awkward, he's aimless, he has no friends - he's a poster boy for emotionally underdeveloped young moderns everywhere, the victim of a nameless and invisible sickness of the societal soul.
And yet Warm Water meanders aimlessly towards a sentimental conclusion, introducing eccentric characters along the way who are never followed up.
There were many people abroad, going to and fro, unhurrying, but not aimless, and I watched them so attentively that were you to ask me for the most elementary details of the buildings and terraces that lay back on either bank, or of the pinnacles and towers and parapets that laced the sky, I could not tell you them. A Modern Utopia
I wandered aimlessly around thinking about the play and failing to find a wireless hotspot.
The aimless kicking from backs to backs and the running straight into contact is pure rugby league and has no place in our game. Times, Sunday Times
One or two people wandered about aimlessly. A Channel of Peace
For the rest of the morning he searched aimlessly through the town.
Slice of life comedy based on a comic strip manga about an 18 year old female high school graduate who moves into an apartment building that is home to numerous aimless "ronin" (high school graduates unable to get accepted into college). AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
The perception most of us have of him is that of an ageing playboy prince, aimlessly roaming the globe in search of a good time. The Sun
I have been wandering around kind of aimlessly so far today. Sheepdip Diary Entry
More intriguing was the unease she detected, the aimlessness his hustling and exuberance did not disguise. O: A Presidential Novel
Alien eggplants, they deign epicycloid arcs aimlessly spaced on a fragmented landscape of trap stone and tar, terra cotta chimney caps and aluminum antennae. Silver Spring to Phoenix
Jaques-Dalcroze's pupils learn to improvise with definite thought and meaning, nothing unrhythmical is ever allowed, nor any aimless meandering over the keyboard. The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze
Even now Skipton's car parks are chock-a-block on a warm summer's day and tourists drive round aimlessly and with increasing frustration.
He added: 'His driving was rather aimless as he was trying to work out what to do. The Sun
The storm just kind of aimlessly moving by early next week, not expecting to make landfall along the U.S., and the reason why is very simple, the same frontal boundary we had yesterday that is going to keep the storm at bay. CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2008
It was a jungle of thick eucalyptus, corpses, tangled azalea, and memories of aimless nocturnal screams.
It was cold and grey, as I remember Scotland being on those blank-faced days in winter when you're left feeling aimless and dull.
There was also a lot of aimless and ill-directed kicking from both sides but suddenly England struck and from an unexpected source.
Occasionally a sightseer would appear and wander aimlessly by, but of all who passed none was aware that anything extraordinary had occurred.
It keeps the player from wandering aimlessly, which is good, but the puzzles are so straightforward as to be almost occasionally insulting. PopMatters
The viewer is left to create a large amount of continuity out of the dialogue and scenes that wander aimlessly.
(Although it must be said the Madrassas provide some regular education and literacy where no other option is available, they do community work that is non-religious ... and they take in aimless troubled youth.) Boing Boing: August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 Archives
He used that excuse to meander aimlessly around the cotton fields; sometimes, he would walk clear across the plantation, and sit between the rows for hours, just thinking.
One or two people wandered about aimlessly. A Channel of Peace
Unable to sleep, Roza took to wandering the castle aimlessly, once again prey to her restless and relentless torment.
Cast asea where she drifts aimlessly for a period of weeks, Zhered-Na receives prophecies of future wars and the rise of costumed heroes like Captain America and Spider-Man, before she eventually lands ashore. Retro-View: Adventure Into Fear #15
Being a tourist is all too often an aimless and passive existence. Times, Sunday Times
Riga grinned proudly and plucked at the sleeve of his shirt aimlessly.
She was wandering aimlessly up and down the road.
Old men and women wander aimlessly around what used to be narrow streets and gardens. Times, Sunday Times
Yet, paradoxically, hers can be a slightly aimless existence. Times, Sunday Times
Yet, paradoxically, hers can be a slightly aimless existence. Times, Sunday Times
Being a tourist is all too often an aimless and passive existence. Times, Sunday Times
He'd driven the van around aimlessly until it had run out of fuel and spluttered and died.
It's not aimlessly hitting putts on a putting green. Times, Sunday Times
Their conversation has the uncertain, improvised aimlessness of real life, and their relationship is not developed and complicated in any traditionally scripted sense.
‘Move aimlessly,’ a woman on bullhorn directed, and the group moved on.
Others see it as a boon for the Piggly Wiggly, a supermarket across the street from Augusta National, which could make a bundle of cash with protesters wandering aimlessly about its parking lot.
People walked around aimlessly, or watched CNN on the big-screen TVs the National Guard had set up around the armory.
When I was still a child, I discovered a thought that resonated strongly with me: "It is better to shine brightly and then burn out than to slowly smoulder aimlessly. Khodorkovsky Unabridged
After several hours of aimless searching they were getting low on fuel.
I diddled around with writing stories in hypertext, but was never satisfied with the result; they seemed to me either confusing or aimless or simply mechanistic, and at best I came up with something so voluminous that I couldn't possibly complete it in one lifetime. MetaHaiku
In between the aimless, idle play and fear of legal and societal retribution, Green's characters deliver poignant soliloquies on abstract concepts like love, self-worth and the state of the world.
Many stumbled aimlessly through the main square, their faces frozen in blank shock as if unable to believe what they were seeing.
KATIE DARYL, "TMZ TV": In the world of Britney, it is so normal just to drive around kind of aimlessly all night. CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2008
This will prevent the mind from sinking into discouragement or aimlessness.
After several hours of aimless searching they were getting low on fuel.
Blair's remarks that the East is "aimless" without something like Christianity are clinically insane and deeply offensive -- and absurd coming from the former leader of what was once the largest colonial empire on Earth. Archive 2008-05-01
I haven't taken the class, but I know it highlights a pivotal point in the Buddhist path; a revolution of sorts from aimless pathlessness to spiritual progress. Speedlinking 6/6/07
He worried about his son's aimlessness and lack of ambition.
They plodded aimlessly and despondent through the subpolar surroundings. Parlor Games
Hair unbound, women bedecked in shmattes of white tulle waft aimlessly around a stage hung with school-pageant clouds.
We were both quiet as we watched the cirrus and cumulous clouds float aimlessly in the vast opening above us.
There's an actual arc, and some literary novels just meander aimlessly, which is why I can't enjoy them as much as I should. Fighting the Genre
His gaze lifted, and he began walking, continuing his aimless trek around Seattle.
Most people appear to regard all this future stuff as nothing more than pointless navel gazing, needless windbaggery, useless pontificating, worthless sounding off and aimless chatter.
It leaves some coach drivers with nowhere to park, aimlessly driving round the airport until their passengers appear outside the terminal.
What we call disinterested, however, super-cats might call aimless. This Simian World
Me and Chris wandered aimlessly, found our way to Claire's house, went in while they were out, and ate their food.
She took note of the open plan bars and restaurants, the oppressive fluorescent lights and the doddering passengers wandering aimlessly trying to kill time.
I had been wandering around the supermarket in an aimless and lethargic fashion when I found myself browsing in the frozen section.
Liverpool are full of vim and verve but it's all a bit aimless.
A typical argument for a song like this would be to say it's "aimless," but I think that misses the point. The Paper and the Empty Box (Music (For Robots))
Amy and Carrie paused their aimless conversation to look at me, incredulously.
Aimless punts gave Macclesfield the ball with time and space to counter-attack - an invitation to which they readily responded - and carelessness in contact led to a series of turnovers.
For the rest of the morning he searched aimlessly through the town.
Random branches hung aimlessly above her head and the neighbors' rose bushes stretched thinly across their metal fence like an achromatic spider web.
Columns supporting the roof were inlaid with elaborate, seemingly aimless designs; tantalizingly intricate, almost gaudy.
She has been cruising around aimlessly for a while now but it is going to get dark soon and the one person she needs to talk to is Greg.
But he quickly went back into his shell, meandering around aimlessly in midfield. The Sun
In both cases he was collecting an aimless, long pass. Times, Sunday Times

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