How To Use Harmless In A Sentence

The pills—containing inexpensive potassium iodide, which is the substance used to iodize common table salt—can prevent thyroid cancer by saturating the thyroid gland with a harmless type of iodine, keeping it from absorbing radioactive iodine that might be inhaled or ingested after a radiation release. Quake Renews Call to Enforce Pill Law
Cheerful competition between strongmen is harmless enough in times of peace. Times, Sunday Times
What seems like harmless flirty fun to you is filling her with anxiety. The Sun
The paddles turned out to be harmless slapsticks, with holes through the actual paddle part so they could cause a loud slapping noise without hurting.
Unlike chemical antiseptics, essential oils are harmless to tissue, yet they are powerful aggressors towards germs.

The fact that they are harmless plankton feeders in no way diminishes the adrenaline rush; the ease with which you can approach them makes that rare encounter even more exciting.
For a long time it was thought to be a harmless substance, but we now have proof/evidence to the contrary.
It does not call up the beast, and if it did it would not matter much, as a rule; the beast is a harmless and rather amiable creature, as anybody can see by watching cattle. Food and Drink
Now he aimed and fired, lying "doggo" behind his favourite stone, while bullets from the enemy's trenches flattened themselves upon it, or buried themselves harmlessly in the dry hot soil. The Dop Doctor
The defect in the software allows computers to be infected by programs concealed in seemingly harmless files or web pages. Times, Sunday Times
Wyatt liked the city manager, his tiredness and efficiency and harmless irascibility.
The really are the sweetest birds in existence - flightless, defenseless, harmless, big, green budgies.
EXPLODE The bomb fell on a field and exploded harmlessly.
He grinned; just another good-hearted carouser stretching a night of harmless merriment into the new day. Survived another workshop!
Where necessary to render harmless and carry away noxious or flammable gases, line brattice or other approved methods of ventilation shall be used so as to properly ventilate the face.
But clearly faked anger about something relatively harmless is easier for an audience to laugh along to. Times, Sunday Times
The native population at first seemed harmless. Times, Sunday Times
Objective To probe into the feasibility in diagnose of renal artery stenosis with simple harmless methods.
Two seemingly harmless and careless shoeblacks turn out to be gloomy crooks with a dirty plan to rob a bank courier.
Pre-wedding nerves can sometimes cause a groom to have a total sense of humour failure when a harmless little prank - shaving his eyebrows, say, or tattooing his cheeks - is played on him.
He was not a harmless old drunk, but a bigoted, racist reactionary who made a fortune from the oil industry.
So then we had the question then of whether it was subject to what we call harmless error, and we said, yes, it is, so then of the cases that had come up, we had to first see if there was error, and then if there was error, was it harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Oral History Interview with Henry Ell Frye, February 18 and 26, 1992. Interview C-0091. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Black can come from charcoal, which is tasteless and harmless.
It's a spider which in theory is harmless, except that just looking at its big hairy legs gives me the willies.
A harmlessly fun prom band, the frisky sextet slickly employ synthesizers, moogs and a farfisa to frame their punk-lite delivery.
Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music. Lucretia — Complete
This is a big reason to combat the creeping banalisation of cosmetic surgery as just another 'harmless' service offered by the booming beauty industry. The Times of India
I think the majority of those that sleepwalk is fairly harmless and quite normal actually, but there are a proportion that do injure themselves falling down the stairs.
Urban exploration is a relatively harmless hobby. The Sun
At suitable sites, mist nets are strung up, and traps laid that harmlessly snare the birds as they come down to roost or rest.
Urban sanitation : Sound urban garbage treatment rate of 90%, the general comprehensive utilization of industrial solid waste and hazardous waste harmless, the main processing rate of 85%.
Nowadays, with cats getting fed so well by their owners, they don't bother about catching mice for food, they use them as playthings, along with birds and other harmless creatures.
And not too surprisingly (since silica is the most abundant mineral in the Earth’s crust), the coating is non-toxic and environmentally harmless. Spray-on liquid glass
I'm not an anti-monarchist by any means because I think the royal family is mostly harmless.
Why is it difficult to degenerate (breakdown) plastics so it can be harmless to the environment? ortho-nitrophenol is steam volatile while para-nitrophenol is not. what is the reason behind this? en Español Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Poor stiff-necked, lonely, "hankering" Sam! to be so harshly reproved for his harmlessly sociable intents. Sabbath in Puritan New England
And yes, for those who have always wondered, penguin tipping from a hercules is both easy, harmless, and amusing. Development Opportunities « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Peter Allis has turned golf into a kind of harmless interview where public figures hit a few shots and chat about themselves.
The flesh of animals thus poisoned, is harmless in the stomach. Life in the Rocky Mountains
They were quite used to Cadfael by that time, he was accepted in La Musarderie as harmless, tolerated by the castellan, and respectably what his habit represented him as being. A River So Long
The Bursar's company, although quite harmless, had a habit of making one's brain squeak. Idiocy as Disease
The whale shark, the biggest fish on earth, is a plankton feeder and harmless to divers.
One ingredient found in almost all tablet or capsule containers is a desiccant - cotton batten or a small canister containing a harmless, water-absorbing compound.
Unlike the Leopard Snake which I now know to be harmless, these cute little chaps are much more appealing.
There were those who found the joke offensive, but Johnson insisted it was just a bit of harmless fun.
Seriously, I think services like this are great for dealing with awkward situations in a harmless, non-confrontational way.
These biographical insights are harmless enough. Times, Sunday Times
On this meter 100 units would be relatively harmless, so today's sunshine measuring up to 140 units was capable of burning.
The culprits are psocids - or booklice - which are common but harmless insects between one and two millimetres long.
It was only supposed to be a harmless prank. The Sun
It looks like what's called a nevus-it's something like a flat mole, usually quite harmless. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
I agreed, breathing a sigh of relief that his request seemed to be innocent and harmless enough.
Here's his charmless admission that he prefers American girls to English ones because they put out without a lot of upfront argle-bargle. Christopher Hitchens's "Hitch-22," reviewed by Diana McLellan
I saw black people who made up about half that society in my home town go from being referred to in racially insulting terms to "colored folk" and boys and girls and happy folk who loved to sing and dance and I will tell you that the most harmless seeming term used as exclusionary is poison to the human spirit. GRINGOS AND GRINGAS....what's in an appelation?
Such perverse behaviour prompted calls for the group to be awarded the title of ‘the most charmless in rock’, so it's with a heavy heart that I trudge along London's Caledonian Road to meet them.
You never forget that he is giving a performance and rarely overcome the fact that he plays such a selfish, charmless character.
If you think Internet flirting and cybersex are harmless, you might want to reconsider.
Oh, she knew about the Wicca, but like him she had thought it totally harmless. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
If the chemistry is right, they can be fun, rowdy, and filled with a bit of harmless debauchery.
The bomb exploded harmlessly 20 kilometers above the ground, leaving a train of smoke that remained visible for an hour.
Why feel so guilty about a feeling that remains a mere fancy, harmlessly stashed away in your brain?
So diphenhydramine may be available over-the-counter — but that doesn't mean it is harmless. Times, Sunday Times
Quarter point increases sound harmless, but it is their cumulative effect that causes the pain.
The anti-Valentine zealots are not just grouching about a harmless festivity.
According to received wisdom, exposure to low level radioactivity is harmless.
This will result in PHP reporting a warning every time an uninitialized variable is used, each bad file access, and other (mostly) harmless errors, but might also represent a potential attack vector.
He can be charmlessly self-righteous. Times, Sunday Times
It's much more likely to be a cyst or a harmless swelling of a tendon. The Sun
Factor analysis is harmless as data reduction, but it is tempting to "reify" the factors, to suppose that they are the hidden causes behind the observations. American Scientist Online
It doesn't cost us money for any electricity, the energy itself is safe, clean and harmless.
In other words, a sprinkle of salt is harmless but 3 grams of salt will kill an adult.
But clearly faked anger about something relatively harmless is easier for an audience to laugh along to. Times, Sunday Times
For Khvostyk, the village, a three-hour bumpy drive from the capital, Kyiv, was a safe place where the world drifted by harmlessly until the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened. Coming Home to Chernobyl’s Desolation Zone
Chances are good that any changes you notice, such as fibrocystic breast changes, are harmless, but it's still essential to have anything new or unusual checked out. WordPress.com News
They often spoke to us children as we passed on our way to school, and seemed both friendly and harmless enough.
Carla shrieked in fright, jumping sideways before realizing she was being confronted by two, more than likely, perfectly harmless fans.
They are very common, entirely benign and harmless. The Sun
I think it will look pleasant and will constitute a harmless act of antiquarianism.
His supporters were marginalized but tolerated in the village, like harmless but disliked lechers. A Privilege to Die
In Shakespeare's day the groundlings were a lot more unruly, and you could say that that actress wasn't being sincere or true to her Shakespearean traditions, taking umbrage at a harmless bit of tom foolery that wouldn't have caused Richard Burbage to drop so much as a single iamb from To be, or not to be. Lance Mannion:
But when the package was blown up in a controlled explosion it was found to be a harmless package of French-style bowling balls, or boules.
But what about other intoxicants such as cocaine, cannabis resin or even the so called harmless prescription drugs.
But to render controls harmless by rendering them meaningless is hardly the right way to use our capacity to provide controls. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
But for aficionados of charmless architecture, it would be advisable to move fast.
The fog was entirely harmless, though, and just left father and son cold and clammy. Times, Sunday Times
The tope shark is considered harmless to humans because of its small size and its preference for small prey items.
Fond of a drink, which may have been the cause of her loud behaviour, Elizabeth was described as Amazonian, of huge size, with masculine features and the voice of a stentor.12 It seems clear to us in the twenty-first century that Charlotte and Elizabeth were harmless eccentrics who certainly did not belong in a mental hospital, or even in custody. Bedlam
The debauchee, the souteneur, the rough often break out into murmurs at a slightly risky scene or expression, though they be very harmless in comparison with their customary conversation. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
A This sounds like a harmless cyst. The Sun
Producing the hydrogen fuel uses the harmless bacteria Escherichia coli.
It all started with a harmless little jog, this dude, Chumani Maxwele a 25 year old student at UCT, and card carrying ANC member, is jogging on De Waal Drive when a whole series of speeding, black 4×4s, with sirens blaring and blue lights flashing, zooms passed him, probably giving him a huge skrik. Muti
Seemingly harmless World Cup screensavers, spreadsheets and electronic wall charts could provide the ideal vehicles for virus and worm propagation.
The immune system of an allergic person sees the harmless dog hair or rabbit fluff as a dangerous invader. Times, Sunday Times
It may have looked harmless enough, but Jenny knew what it stood for - guilt and self-reproach.
She thinks I spend all these hours on the computer looking at pornography or some other harmless pursuit; if she knew I was bleating on about life, the universe and everything she would get worried.
Tonight, though, the playing-fields were quiescent and harmless, and the only pedestrian on either footpath was Isobel Clarke. MUSIC FOR BOYS
In our business, the phrase "harmless error" is a contradiction in terms.
It has to be accepted that cannabis is widely used and is seen by many as relatively harmless.
Gradually the voluntary churches thus came to be safety valves for society, means of draining potentially dangerous conflict into harmless channels.
Divorced or married, they saw their session as harmless me-time. Times, Sunday Times
Now, at one level this is all harmless political knockabout.
And grant as an indulgent parent that we may hereafter continue to live a harmless and happy life and keep our self-respect. Christianity Today
The accident with the bike rider had been relatively harmless. POSITIVELY FEARLESS: Breaking free of the fears that hold you back
She used to make me laugh when she told me of the harmless jokes and pranks she played earlier that day.
The bomb squad also was summoned to examine one other package that proved to be harmless.
The majority of schools in the 1970s and 1980s still had some prefabricated buildings - cold, draughty, charmless boxes that always felt empty.
But they reckon without an apparently harmless little old lady coming between them and the loot. The Sun
The interiors had the charmless elegance of upscale hotel suites.
Completely harmless to the skin, sunless tanners contain dihydroxyacetone, a colorless sugar that stains the skin.
Paregoric, added to some cough drops, originally referred to a camphorated opium compound, now reduced to a harmless flavouring.
I've learned that to get new ideas accepted, one needs to be as "shrewd as a snake and harmless as a dove. Christianity Today
Psocids or booklice are common but harmless insects between 1 mm and 2 mm long, which can survive in dry powdery foods.
I think I'm regarded as harmless and mildly eccentric; I'm happy with both qualities.
A love of the familiar and the secure is a harmless emotion; benign, and yet powerful. Times, Sunday Times
They light up the night sky like a beautiful but harmless fire, if such a thing existed.
They partake in a silly and harmless activity and then disperse at a given time.
The immune system of an allergic person sees the harmless dog hair or rabbit fluff as a dangerous invader. Times, Sunday Times
Some thing or things have to happen for a microbe to escape its previously harmless ecological niche and reach critical mass.
Her brother's a bit simple, but he's quite harmless.
But to render controls harmless by rendering them meaningless is hardly the right way to use our capacity to provide controls. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
The vessels could be used for harmless industrial processes or for making chemical weapons.'
It seems a pretty harmless form of entertainment that may even encourage a healthy scepticism in its audience.
And church and state pause in this made vortex of chaos to prate of the ills of pugilism; to legislate and perorate anent bloodless boxing bouts; to prosecute a brace of harmless pugs. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
Aethris cannoned into him, and the dagger hummed harmlessly into the air.
After their death attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonise them, to hallow their names while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarising it. Matthew Yglesias » King and Nonviolence
I know there aren't any monkeys or apes that could stand our winters except maybe the harmless Himalayan langur.
It made me sad reading about that woman, to be driven to such a measure is indicative of how bad it actually is in some areas, but you have to admit, co-ercing a spacker to 'lift her nightie up' is up there with knock a door run and theiving bottles of milk off doorsteps .. not everyday for months/years on end. if it was your daughter? or is it ok because she was disabled? doesn't matter now though does it? they are both dead. only a harmless bit of fun. discuss? was gonna suggest your user name should be 'benni' 77, but i'd lose the moral high ground Army Rumour Service
You can find some harmless mischief to get yourself into, can't you?
It almost seemed like a joke, a harmless prank one of his friends had pulled on him.
There are inevitably items in the food we eat (as there always have been) that are harmless but definitely unaesthetic.
It proved that this Dennis Shea was a harmless, amiable fellow, of the class known as shiftless, who had sealed his fate by marrying a dumb wife, who was flexeril at that moment ironing in the laundry.. Rob Savage
People could look harmless and gorgeous on the outside when really they are vicious vile evil monsters on the inside.
Learning a lesson Resistance to vancomycin already has created a smaller monster of a bug that had been virtually harmless, enterococcus.
Those who think this is a harmless recreational drug should wise up.
Theirs was the first report showing that a host nutritional deficiency could turn a harmless microbe into a pathogen.
If you're merely in the mood for a harmless but intelligent and thoughtful family cartoon to bide the time between Pixar and DreamWorks epics, it is as perfect a choice as can be imagined. Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Review: Winnie the Pooh Is Feather-Light and Subtly Clever Family Fare
The servant at Blackwood Castle (Grimsby, played by Artur Binder) tries to frighten Jane by placing a snake in her bed (one of many he cares for in the cellar); a neighboring inn begins to see unprecedented seasonal business from visitors (Horst Tappert as "Douglas Fairbanks," CARMEN, BABY's Uta Levka) showing unusual interest in Blackwood Castle... and each other; and the two seemingly harmless old fogies playing chess in the inn's tavern are using a tricked-out chesspiece to send messages to the snake-caring servant. Archive 2006-04-23
But she doesn't hassle people and is harmless. The Sun
Suiting the action to the word, he thrust her rather suddenly and prematurely into a chair, and designing to reassure her by a little harmless jocularity, such as is adapted to please and fascinate the sex, converted his right forefinger into an ideal bradawl or gimlet, and made as though he would screw the same into her side — whereat Miss Miggs shrieked again, and evinced symptoms of faintness. Barnaby Rudge
Among other plants which may cause serious mischief, but are seldom suspected, are such harmless-looking flowers as the meadowsweet, herb-paris, the common fool's-parsley, found growing in quantities in the gardens of unlet houses and neglected ground which has been in cultivation, mezereon, columbine, and laburnum. The Naturalist on the Thames
But clearly faked anger about something relatively harmless is easier for an audience to laugh along to. Times, Sunday Times
What, with careless exaggeration, he had said to a friend some months before, on setting forth his _Elegy on the Death of a Young Man_, "The thing has made my name hereabouts more famous than twenty years of practice would have done; but it is a name like that of him who burnt the Temple of Ephesus: God be merciful to me a sinner!" might now with all seriousness be said of the impression his _Robbers_ made on the harmless townsfolk of Stuttgart. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
Chicken pox is usually fairly harmless, but it can, under certain circumstances, be extremely dangerous. A Perpoxing Question
The triangle -- or quadrangle, if one includes your aunt -- may have been harmless but it could well have been most unwholesome. ULTIMATE PRIZES
And of course we should continue to take these awful, embarrassing and harmless photos.
He has been described as a 'charmless bore'-not by me, I hasten to add.
Judge Stockdale must interpret the laws regarding the charges against Mr. Gall, he must find Mr. Gall a harmless brute, not a criminal, criminals go to jail, harmless juvenescent behavior is punished by community service. Deters Is Right (For A Change)
Unlike chemical antiseptics, essential oils are harmless to tissue, yet they are powerful aggressors towards germs.
These fools think it is harmless fun. The Sun
One and all, the professors, the preachers, and the editors, hold their jobs by serving the Plutocracy, and their service consists of propagating only such ideas as are either harmless to or commendatory of the Plutocracy. Chapter 9: The Mathematics of a Dream
Harmless worms called helminths can also be useful in helping to train the immune system.
If the Bill is passed, it will stop the massacre of harmless creatures like deer, hares and foxes.
The mimicry programmes may be crude, but they are harmless and provide innocent fun to the audience.
At the other end of the scale a short list of names and addresses is not necessarily harmless.
Belief in them is harmless enough, no doubt, and may lead on to a further interest in matters Egyptological.
In the same town there lived a Negro, named Henry Smith, a well-known character, a kind of roustabout, who was generally considered a harmless, weak-minded fellow, not capable of doing any important work, but sufficiently able to do chores and odd jobs around the houses of the white people who cared to employ him. The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Over the last few years marijuana has gradually lost its 70s image as a harmless drug.
But it was a harmless basking shark, which eats only plankton. The Sun
In its milder forms, celebrity worship amounts to little more than harmless entertainment. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
Raised Muslim, she now embraces a kind of universalist "natural" as opposed to revealed religion, along with practicing little bits of harmless divination. THE PHANTOM SHIP by Frederick Marryat (New English Library 1975)
And we diligently ensure that harmless old Biggs remains locked up… justice pah!
One of the women shouts a lot, swears a lot and is utterly, utterly charmless. Times, Sunday Times
Various germs such as fungi and bacteria live harmlessly on the skin and inside the body.
It almost seemed like a joke, a harmless prank one of his friends had pulled on him.
To put the two lightning bolts on the same level was only a harmless accountancy game, but we know now how far Spurs are behindthe great powers. Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale sum up gap between Real and Spurs | Paul Hayward
But anyway, the Celebrity Big Brother house played host last week to the mother-in-law of all cat-fights when what started as a harmless "girls' night in", complete with pyjamas, chardonnay and Cyndi Lauper keening "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", ended up as Mean Girls as imagined by Bruegel. Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name | Julie Burchill
As far as he's aware, Freddie is quite harmless and doesn't constitute a health hazard.
Our daily routine include attending lectures, facing one struggle or the other, fighting for the rights of students, studying, gisting with friends or just do "God knows what" in harmless ways. Archive 2009-07-01
Even a seemingly harmless edit can result in changes to some of the least significant bits in the floating-point variable.
The study of these and of the tsetze flies by skilled entomologists employed in the museum has been a necessary part of the steps now being taken everywhere to preserve human population from the attacks of certain deadly kinds among them, distinguished from the others which are harmless. More Science From an Easy Chair
Obviously, any brawl that involves the fans is a whole different animal, and one of those is too many — but a good old-fashioned fight amongst players is usually harmless, and often pretty entertaining. Matthew Yglesias » Suspensions
The term malware can be used to describe a program that is as harmless as an annoying pop-up box that attempts to direct a user to a website in order to increase the website's traffic. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
He held his empty palms before him as he walked, pale fingers thrust wide apart in a dumb show of harmlessness.
Bacteriophages appeared to be harmless to man, and seemed to be promising therapeutic agents of revolutionary importance.
Those who think this is a harmless recreational drug should wise up.
It can identify if those diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ — often harmless — are in danger of it spreading. The Sun
Harmless and humane, the cats simply don't like the sound, which is undetectable to the human ear.
As for the enemy soldiers, they were either harmless boobies or cold-blooded psychopaths.
They are often symptomless and frequently harmless. Sex, coffee may boost risk of brain aneurysm rupture
The prowler was the only unfamiliar thing, harmless and weaponless now that his scissors lay abandoned on the floor between the sisters’ beds. Slice Of Cherry
The fog was entirely harmless, though, and just left father and son cold and clammy. Times, Sunday Times
The proscript has plenty of leisure to write his proclamations and even his memoirs, and I believe he has organs in which they are published; but the only noise he makes in the world is the harmless splash of his oars. Italian Hours
This was not an African lion but an American mountain lion also known as a cougar or puma, a cat the size of a leopard that was once rare and considered virtually harmless.
Heavy metals, lead, mercury, cadmium and brominated flame retardants are all found in computer equipment and remain stable and relatively harmless while the machinery is in use.
It's absolutely harmless, enjoyable, and challenging to shoot across a wide mountain canyon with a safe backstop on the other side - the name of this game being far.
Jesting at himself he defined 'lexicographer' as 'a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. ' A History of English Literature
As a general rule they do not sting and are harmless.
Setting: A community town hall meeting for the citizens of EAST PARK, a neighbor of SOUTH PARK, to discuss Comedy Central's recent censorship of a harmless cartoon portraying Prophet Mohammed due to veiled threats against the cartoon's creators by two loners named De-volution Islam. Wajahat Ali: "East Park": A Satire on the South Park Prophet Muhammad Controversy
What seems like harmless flirty fun to you is filling her with anxiety. The Sun
Learning a lesson Resistance to vancomycin already has created a smaller monster of a bug that had been virtually harmless, enterococcus.
Each life discussed here is, in its own way spectacular, a far cry from the popular image of the Victorian female folklorist as a harmless, if slightly dotty, amateur sitting at home waxing lyrical about fairies and Morris dancing.
What was unassuming and harmless suddenly becomes ironic, transmuted into that elusive thing we call ‘art.’
Those genes would produce a harmless protein that, once inside the body, would sound the false alarm of infection.
I liked the challenge of suiting the garments to the women who wanted them, of making a fit, of gratifying harmless desire. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
In truth the blindworm is perfectly harmless and quite safe to handle.
Anyone who has ever met him will tell you he is completely harmless.
The bacteria is harmless to humans.
Last night he seemed charmless at best. Times, Sunday Times
It can cause nausea and, in extreme cases, death in humans, but is harmless to marine life.
It all sounds harmless enough. Times, Sunday Times

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