How To Use Needlessly In A Sentence
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A lot of information is needlessly cluttering your mind.
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During this time Kissinger needlessly prolonged U.S. war-making in which 20,853 Americans were killed and an officially U. S.-estimated 7,860,013 Indochinese were murdered, maimed or made homeless.
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British racing has advanced in this regard but too many key races are still needlessly lost.
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But his critics say he has needlessly antagonized professors with his autocratic style.
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Although one should generally refuse that food which "needlessly taxes digestion and so impairs mental activity," a young student — particularly a young condottiere such as Guidobaldo — could not be permitted to develop a finicky palate.
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Someone decided that the semicolons were needlessly fussy, resulting in what English teachers call a dangling modifier.
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The goalkeeper showed his continuing nervousness by needlessly coming to claim the resultant corner.
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As long as he has not been exonerated from the first assault, this may safely be accomplished without opening themselves to a defamation suit (i.e. they need to keep within the truth, and not tarnish his reputation needlessly).
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However, intensive care also raises the specter of treatment for treatment's sake and fears of a life prolonged needlessly by machines.
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Such a policy would needlessly destroy millions of acres of already dwindling sage-steppe habitat that supports sage grouse and other grassland species, such as pronghorn, mule deer and golden eagles.
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You have extinguished that light suddenly and needlessly.
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Irregularities have to be handled as natural aspects of a language, not as excrescences which needlessly complicate the grammar.
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When William falls in love, James berates him, and their relations remain needlessly strained until near the end.
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You have extinguished that light suddenly and needlessly.
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In addressing these and countless projects like them up and down the state, Californians have relied on CEQA for over 40 years to protect their communities and our natural resources from environmentally uninformed government decisions -- decisions that needlessly pollute our air, contaminate our water, endanger our children's health, despoil our wild lands, and undermine the quality of our lives.
Joel Reynolds: Handle CEQA With Care
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Thus, the agony for Walker may have been needlessly prolonged.
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Didn't you see the 263 word lumbering monster of a comment I painfully and needlessly deposited late yesterday evening.
Urban Tools: Curatorial Commitment
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The result is more time spent cooking from scratch and more food needlessly thrown away.
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Labelling millions of people as prediabetic is needlessly 'turning healthy people into patients', researchers are arguing.
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Either way it all seemed needlessly long-winded and rather pretentious.
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He said something to me so mean, so needlessly cruel.
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The really crass error was in conceding the free kick so needlessly in the first place.
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I take that back, the thing that's MOST galling is that he's going to continue to allow American troops to DIE NEEDLESSLY while he dithers about looking smart and thoughtful.
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You bet we can - but not in the 7-10 days I figured it would take, and not without pushing our troops unforgivably and needlessly hard.
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The really crass error was in conceding the free kick so needlessly in the first place.
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The sunken door handles are needlessly fiddly too.
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From a military perspective, both cities burned to cinders needlessly.
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Teenagers have a natural affinity with the colour black as it saves having to change clothes everyday and time spent on needlessly choosing which outfit to wear today.
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All too often the fish, overly chewy, and the rice, needlessly clumpy, didn't deserve gentler treatment.
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The book was needlessly massive and it came in a choice of eight ostentatious satin covers.
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Either way it all seemed needlessly long-winded and rather pretentious.
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It's more accurate to say he obscured the important substance of his speech by needlessly raising an irrelevant and neuralgic subject.
The 1967 Line of Fire
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You have extinguished that light suddenly and needlessly.
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I would disapprove only of the needlessly dry string pizzicatos at the first suggestion of the variations' sicilienne-like theme.
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This process should lessen the chances of pricing too low or of needlessly giving away other concessions like favourable payment terms.
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Stunning scenery makes up for a needlessly overdramatic voice-over.
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The sunken door handles are needlessly fiddly too.
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The result is more time spent cooking from scratch and more food needlessly thrown away.
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But it's scuppered by clunky dialogue and a needlessly convoluted plot.
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For one thing, it is needlessly redundant, since it basically comes down to saying that Kant's logocentrism ensures that logocentrism conceives the fine arts in a logocentric manner.
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And there I was worrying that I'd needlessly insulted this blameless woman.
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Second, many people with chronic health conditions leave work needlessly and then find re-employment almost impossible.
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Once again, many do not recognise their affliction, and needlessly suffer conditions such as cramping and intestinal gas.
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Addressing opponents with an honorific needlessly elevates them, so stick to first names.
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Exclusive rights-of-way over the best radio spectrum are going to be needlessly, mendaciously, corruptly, and shortsightedly sold.
Matthew Yglesias » Spectrum Management Blogging
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Too many local authorities are needlessly displacing people through unnecessary commercial prestige redevelopments, says a State Council circular which has been distributed nationally.
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Does he think charging around needlessly conceding possession and struggling uselessly to win it back is the way forward?
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Lee Young - Pyo dwelled needlessly on a ball in defence, only to be caught in possession by his South Korea counterpart Park Ji - Sung.
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I will delete (or disemvowel) comments that are duplicative, commercial, needlessly foul or mean or otherwise inappropriately offensive.
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Scientists who jabbered on needlessly using five syllabled words had always gotten on his nerves.
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The headword toad is duly glossed, as padda, karta, and then -- quite needlessly -- illustrated, with this remarkably elucidating sentence: the toad was delighted to see his mother again.
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Frequently observed in connection with cabin groups is a tendency to spread the effects of their presence over a needlessly large area.
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But it's scuppered by clunky dialogue and a needlessly convoluted plot.
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Further, the system of citation seems needlessly cumbersome.
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Some insurers and banks are needlessly holding up the process with medical exams.
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Let us strive for accuracy in demeaning each other needlessly.
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I'll take an older print with character any day over needlessly edge-enhanced modern prints, but the fact is that this print is in poor shape.
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Furthermore, advances in technology that needlessly prolong dying can be a threat to human dignity.
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The doctor was struck off by the Medical Council in July for needlessly removing the wombs of 10 women.
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Instead I watched as a war was launched with a tissue of lies, and as innocents died needlessly.
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[68] But still more by the mechanical system of philosophy which has needlessly infected our theological opinions, and teaching us to consider the world in its relation to god, as of a building to its mason, leaves the idea of omnipresence a mere abstract notion in the stateroom of our reason.
Biographia Literaria
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She eats another nut, and needlessly, absently, combs her hair.
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You have to read it twice to make certain you understand the needlessly jargonized lingo.
NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: November 2009 Archives
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Many pet pigs were culled during the Foot and Mouth epidemic - some quite needlessly in the contagious cull - and people were so heartbroken that they haven't replaced them.
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Are you saying you have needlessly besmirched the reputation of the Secretary of State?
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it would needlessly bring badness into the world
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That tide of agricultural improvement which has passed over the country, has, in its utilitarian course, swept away -- sometimes inevitably, often most needlessly -- the aggers and ditches of ancient camps, sepulchral barrows and mounds, stone circles and cairns, earth-raths, and various other objects of deep antiquarian interest.
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
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Why should people who have got incurable diseases or who are in pain every hour, every minute, every second of the day go on needlessly suffering?
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This curious, needlessly constrictive recording technique does make the album's deliberate, measured structure more impressive though not necessarily more entertaining.
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AN area of greenfield land the size of a large city could be needlessly lost under the government's planning overhaul, according to critics.
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The needlessly extended controversy over the New York mosque is a case in point.
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Recent studies at the University of California at Davis have shown that most people stake their young trees needlessly and for too long.
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Her mother replied that policemen were greatly sought after as husbands for several reasons -- firstly, they were big men, and big men are always good to look upon; secondly, their social standing was very high and their respectability undoubted; thirdly, a policeman's pay was such as would bring comfort to any household which was not needlessly and criminally extravagant; and this was often supplemented in a variety of ways which rumor only hinted at: there was also the safe prospect of a pension and the possibility of a sergeantship, where the emoluments were very great: and fourthly, a policeman, being subjected for many years to a rigorous discipline, would likely make a nice and obedient husband.
Mary, Mary
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Old bogeys that should have been buried years ago have been needlessly reinvigorated.
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I don't dillydally, explore needlessly, or take any big chances.
Saved by the Bell
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Only fools martyr themselves needlessly.
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On one occasion he turned a yellow card into a red one by needlessly hoofing the ball away after being flagged offside.
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Owners of classic cars are being urged not to yield to the temptation of the government's scrappage scheme and have them needlessly crushed.
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Before we were done the innkeeper came out once again and took up a post by his bar, needlessly polishing his mugs.
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And the whole exercise is needlessly, excessively hostile intone.
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Docking manoeuvres were thought to be needlessly risky as they required delicately flying two spacecraft in close proximity.
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Aside from some needlessly sappy sentimentality and a cute quirkiness to characters that sometimes seems a little too pat, the film is well written.
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That song also featured a needlessly long pause for dramatic effect that didn't escape the wrath of some audience members who catcalled the pretentious moment.
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That nod-and-wink style of governing needlessly raises business risk.
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Electricity from excess illumination wastes an enormous amount of energy needlessly.
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Likewise, mandating a ‘two winter’ test cycle might be needlessly conservative as computer models become more predictively accurate.
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But why imbitter him needlessly against us, against the
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Operators received lethal doses of radiation while needlessly reconnecting the water supply to the devastated reactor.
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There's no suggestion that these drugs were prescribed needlessly (some patients are indeed very sick), however this patient seems to have been "cycled" through various drug categories - hence
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In fact, because of a psychological predisposition, he was bound to arrive at the functionally desirable result, yet because he had to “attitudinize to himself,” he “wast[ed] time, proceed[ed] unnecessarily by indirection, and burn[t] up his energies needlessly.”
Pound at Large and at Bay
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However, intensive care also raises the specter of treatment for treatment's sake and fears of a life prolonged needlessly by machines.
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Either way it all seemed needlessly long-winded and rather pretentious.
Times, Sunday Times
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For one thing, it is needlessly redundant, since it basically comes down to saying that Kant's logocentrism ensures that logocentrism conceives the fine arts in a logocentric manner.
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You have extinguished that light suddenly and needlessly.
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Many suffer needlessly from eye defects due top lack of knowledge and basic equipment.
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He has a few too many disparaging references to ‘country yokels,’ and some of his remarks about women are needlessly chauvinistic.
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Either way it all seemed needlessly long-winded and rather pretentious.
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For so much of the tragedy in disability is created by a society which needlessly handicaps us.
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People would say that all these quakeproof buildings were needlessly expensive and stifling innovation.
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The stuff about them being more dangerous and needlessly wasteful is true, but that's just extra ammunition.
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Here, on the terrace where I sit, and where ladies in needlessly costly robes are promenading up and down to exhibit their superfluous wealth ostentatiously to one another, my ear is continuously assailed by the constant _ping, ping, ping_ of the pigeon-shooting, and my peace disturbed by the flapping death-agonies of those miserable victims.
Post-Prandial Philosophy
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Medical librarians concerned they could be out of a job as electronic publishing comes of age may be worrying needlessly.
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It seems all wrong in modern surroundings, though, and I was forever activating the wipers needlessly.
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For over 2000 years, leeches were needlessly applied for many ailments as an adjunct to blood letting.
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In this current cold spell, many old people are dying needlessly of hypothermia.
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Congo's leaders since independence have been marked by corruption and bad governance and have needlessly sought to blame their former coloniser, he told AP.
Is colonialism still to blame for the Democratic Republic of Congo's woes?
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My wife and I know what it is like to lose a much-loved son needlessly on military duty in a distant country and we wouldn't wish that dreadful heartache and pain on anyone.
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Every penny counts for cash-strapped students, so it makes sense to ensure money is not given away needlessly.
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Grandin feeds to people what they want … A mouthpiece for the industry that NEEDLESSLY slaughters 10 billion animals a year.
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She'd worried quite needlessly about whether there would be enough food.
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As if aware that he might have needlessly shown up Dorgan, Murdoch added, in charmer mode, "If we could find a popular, amusing broadcaster to talk for an hour or two every day and he was a liberal, we'd have him on like a shot.
The Age of Murdoch
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The reverse skill, of course, is spelling, only and needlessly tricky because we choose to write English in nonphonetic code.
High School Confidential
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Even these remaining rights are often needlessly violated.
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The important thing is to have aircraft and vehicles that do not put troops needlessly at risk.
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He didn't get where he is in the culinary industry by needlessly introducing non-binary thinking.
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You have extinguished that light suddenly and needlessly.
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Second, many people with chronic health conditions leave work needlessly and then find re-employment almost impossible.
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The sunken door handles are needlessly fiddly too.
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It's cream colored and needlessly fancy, and, if you squint, you can make out the gold words reading "Lerner Shops" at the top of the building, at the center of green escutcheons on the left and on the right.
My Fair Relic
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When the voices that advocate for usability are absent or weak, security measures become needlessly restrictive.
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Surely, no image-conscious bank would inconvenience its customers needlessly.
