How To Use Uselessly In A Sentence
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I pursed my lips together, willing myself not to babble on uselessly about what he'd been doing wrong.
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Caramon ducked and the sword clanged uselessly against the chain, notching the blade.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
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And after mopping uselessly at the scalding coffee that I'd inadvertently spat on my arm I sat back down to figure out how the bejesus I'd picked up the extra million or so visitors.
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Terrified of turning the boat into a land-yacht, I minced around in the middle of the navigation in uselessly short tacks that took us no appreciable distance against the wind.
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I would not, causelessly, alarm my husband: nor would
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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When he awoke, and sprang up causelessly frightened, the words were in his ears, as if her voice had slowly spoken them at his pillow, to break his rest: ‘He withers away in his prison; I wither away in mine; inexorable justice is done; what do I owe on this score!’
Little Dorrit
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I found that I have a few other offprints of earlier articles of mine, sitting there uselessly on the shelf.
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the furniture was sitting around uselessly
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I'm just uselessly twisting a thousand things around in my head.
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In their worst forms such "sodic" soils become self - sealing: their internal structure collapses so that water just sits uselessly on the surface.
11. Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types
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The universe emerges randomly and causelessly out of space.
Times, Sunday Times
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If so, I am afraid I can now do nothing that will give me more disgrace than I have already so causelessly received by their indiscreet persecutions: and let me be whose I will, and do what I will, I shall never wipe off the stain which my confinement, and the rigorous usage I have received, have fixed upon me; at least in my own opinion.
Clarissa Harlowe
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The objective may seem to some an unworthy one but it takes account of the realities without repining uselessly over them.
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Working the jaws incessantly, uselessly and unbeautifully is an effort to deceive the body into the belief that it is being sufficiently well fed when it isn't.
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Deryn glanced up, and saw Newkirk and his ascender drifting uselessly over the airship.
LEVIATHAN
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The front bogie was snapped clean away, the other spinning uselessly as it hit the ground.
WHITE LIES
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She expostulated upon his having so causelessly terrified her, and enquired why he came so disguised.
Camilla
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I left my assailant slumped against the wall, gesturing uselessly at my disappearing back, entreating me not to go.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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I believe the gentlest spirits when provoked (causelessly and cruelly provoked) are the most determined.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Boats toss on their moorings or lay slumped on their sides on the beach, propped uselessly.
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We know going in that to cover the matter in such a way as to elide divisions within the community of economists as instead a division between “economists” (hopefully meaning something less trivial than ‘these guys here, who happen to be economists’) and political advisors is at best uselessly uninsightful.
Matthew Yglesias » Geithner vs Axelrod
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In his other hand the silver salver dangled uselessly at his side.
THE WHITE DOVE
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He was uneasy, real uneasy, tugging uselessly on the bottom of his jacket, and fussing with the cummerbund for the umpteenth time; yet he was looking forward to seeing her.
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Those scruples and that refinement against which he warned her, she herself thought might be overstrained, and to gratify unnecessary punctilio, the short period of existence be rendered causelessly unhappy.
Cecilia
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Dio's mind flitted uselessly, trying to come up with an idea, a plan, an escape, but without hope.
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I had rejections, a string of unrequited loves that I laid awake at night uselessly pining over, and once I even got caught in a bear trap.
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The arachnid’s carapace is too tough, however, and his weapon glances off uselessly.
Session 1: Every New Beginning « Love | Peace | Ohana
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His sinewy arms flailed around uselessly, his legs kicked furiously, but the ocean's grip on him only got stronger as it pulled him further down.
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I was indifferent, I said, about what he could say of me; and I was sure it could not be to my disadvantage; and as he had no reason to impute to me the forwardness which my unkind friends had so causelessly taxed me with.
Clarissa Harlowe
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We can go further and look at synteny, or the conserved order of sequences in the genome, and see that there is an explicable pattern of change, one that is explained by common genetic and evolutionary processes, and does not fit the design hypothesis except in the sense that the design hypothesis is so uselessly vague that you can make any observation fit it.
The circus is in town; the creationist calliope is wheezing away again - The Panda's Thumb
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She lived, meanwhile, wholly shut up from all company, consigned to penitence for her indiscretions, to grief for the fate of her sister, and to wasting regret of her own causelessly lost felicity.
Camilla
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I shrugged uselessly, before I turned to hear Alex's laugh vibrating in the room.
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And very likely I said uselessly Oh honey! How on earth did this happen!
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'Nor should I – nor could I –' she cried '' refuse him – for I have every reliance in his honour – but that the guilty world, ignorant of the purity of our friendship, might causelessly alarm my brother for my fame.
Camilla
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At that time, there was talk of a deaf-mute who sometimes frequented the same spot, unschooled in any language of symbols, motioning uselessly to passersby.
Matisse, in the Jardin des Tuileries, 1904
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He hung from the crossbar, his legs dangling uselessly in mid air.
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He was yelling and crying, reaching out desperately and uselessly past the restraining arms in a vain attempt to bring his friend back.
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This satisfaction is impleaded as inconsistent with free remission of sins, — how causelessly we have seen.
A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity
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For I had rather he should receive the injury, then I to be causelessly blamed for him; wherein good Father tell me, if I dooe not well.
The Decameron
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'You, indeed,' continued the temperate Eugenia, 'if so situated, would not so have behaved; you would not have been so unjust; and you could not have been so weak; but still, if you had received, however causelessly, any alarm for the affection of the man you meant to marry, and that man were as amiable as Edgar, you would have been equally disturbed.'
Camilla
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Does he think charging around needlessly conceding possession and struggling uselessly to win it back is the way forward?