Sentence examples for a useless thing from inspiring English sources

"'I'm bored' is a useless thing to say.

A third judge, Merrick B. Garland, dissented, and said the court was ordering the commission to "do a useless thing" because there was not enough money left to reach a conclusion about whether the site was suitable for nuclear waste.

Because if you are strong and successful as an animal, you can afford to invest energy in such a useless thing".

"The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely.

"Whenever I watch Indian Idol and India's Got Talent, I feel like 'Oh I wish I could be there.' I'm very fond of singing," Talat explained, her timid voice picking up pace and gaining a note of conviction "But if I tell my father now he's not going to encourage it because he'll say it's a useless thing to do".

An offshore tax expert, Richard Murphy, said: "This is a completely useless thing for a bank to do.

But this is rarely a helpful exercise; most ideas aren't new, just new to you, and an idea is a fairly useless thing.

To Ms. Wyman, Jell-O may be a pretty useless thing, but it's also a pretty beautiful one, and her reactions are not contradictory, chagrin and enthusiasm alternating as happily as layers of raspberry Jell-O and artificial whipped cream.

Finding the film's flaws by going to its source is not the same as judging a film by its fidelity to the book (a silly, useless thing to do).

Part of the problem is that manned space-flight is a relatively useless thing.

A coder suddenly realizes, about the app he's worked on for months, "I made a perverted, sexist, useless thing".