Sentence examples for a useless exercise from inspiring English sources

It was a useless exercise.

Initially she didn't want to approach the police, convinced it would be a useless exercise.

If it's a useless exercise, and it doesn't make the relationship any better, then we won't do that".

Let's stop this pointless charade and cease wasting scarce taxpayer resources on a useless exercise in calculated evasion, accompanied by silly senatorial pontificating.

'Until the data is made more transparent and comprehensible it is a useless exercise,' says Deborah Doane, chair of the Core coalition.

It was a useless exercise, except, perhaps, for those watching from one group: Republicans looking for a script for how to surrender to Donald Trump.

And that, I contend, would be a senseless and useless exercise.

Many State Department officials began to dismiss the project as a useless academic exercise.

The game of "What If?" history is almost always a useless, speculative exercise - and always definitive on the question of Ralph Nader in the presidential election of 2000, and the history of the world thereafter.

For a start, she thinks Alfred might still get better if only he'd do the useless exercises his doctor has given him.

Or, as Donald Clark writes: "It's a peacock's tail, the luxury of being able to ignore utility for superfluous acquisition of a useless and purely academic exercise.