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How To Use pointlessly In A Sentence

• Back in the fall of 1959, when I arrived in Boston as a college freshman, the universally acknowledged top of the heap was Locke-Ober, a Belle Époque pillar of elegance off the Common, with a men-only main dining room and a stuffy menu crowned by a pointlessly fussy treatment of decorticated and reshelled lobster called Savannah. Boston Goes Way Beyond Cod
• Then there's the idea of disembodied breasts fighting each other ( "My ta-tas could beat up your ta-tas") which not only pointlessly brings up violence (this time woman v. woman or breast v. breast) but seems counterproductive to the idea of breast cancer research. Feminist blogs
• The single framed print hanging on the wall on the first landing, the dead lightbulbs suspended pointlessly from their dusty flexes.
• He yaps pointlessly about… ‘Meals on Wheels.’
• Mammals, as we have learned to expect, employ a bizarre and pointlessly complicated variation on the straightforward and logical reptilian plan.
• Another day, another study, about grown women being foully and pointlessly competitive with each other, this time focusing on levels of one-upmanship on the school run. Save me from these silly school run myths | Barbara Ellen
• Arguably, though a conversation with fellow hacks who know a lot more about buses than I do left unresolved the question of whether it will prove less manoeuvrable than the surprisingly manoeuvrable articulated "bendy" buses that Boris Johnson is gleefully - and rather pointlessly - phasing out. Boris's Bus (A Political Journey) Part 33: The Finished Article
• Chemicals were pointlessly poisoning the soil.
• Shoals of cycling commuters share the roads with Mercs and Audis, while galleries and brasseries line up beside shops selling ergonomically perfect kitchens and pointlessly pricey polo necks.
• Innocent lives were cruelly and pointlessly wiped out.