Sentence examples for about as useful from inspiring English sources

We simply do not know, and any intelligence estimate that would cause us to relax would be about as useful as the ones that missed his nuclear program in the early 1990's or failed to predict the Indian nuclear test in 1998 or to gain even a hint of the Sept. 11 attack.

That's about as useful for a match situation as a car in a swimming pool.

I confess, I was about as useful there as" -- pause to search for an appropriate measure of uselessness -- "an academic".

For the most part, I'm about as useful on the pitch as an ashtray on a motorbike.

You will have spotted the flaw here; until it's 100% biodegradable it's about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

I feel about as useful as a pork chop in a synagogue with all this Internet bollocks.

But a sequencing machine without software is about as useful as a laptop with no operating system.

ON THE face of it, a telescope with a liquid mirror sounds about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

In our children's lifetime, learning to drive will come to be seen as about as useful as learning to dance the quadrille.

Next, there's the equally horrible prospect of discovering that, as an untrained volunteer, you're about as useful as the cast of Casualty in a genuine A&E ward.

"Are you anti-Semitic?" she asked her guest, which is about as useful an interview technique as asking about wife-beating.