Sentence examples for and was useless from inspiring English sources

For one thing, the standpipe for water supply had been dismantled and was useless, which delayed the first arrival of water on the fire.

I picked mine up on a supermarket dash and was useless as a mother and partner for the remainder of the weekend.

By the city's reasoning, an inspection might have turned up problems in the building that later hampered the firefighting effort, including the fact that the standpipe, designed to deliver water to the structure to fight a fire, had been partly dismantled and was useless.

The effort cost $100,000 and was useless for the film, but created "priceless" publicity.

"I missed the free throw and was useless the whole tournament".

They had been rained on and were useless, but she didn't know this.

And thorium, unfortunately, does not produce plutonium and is useless as far as proliferation is concerned.

Otherwise, the radar images are highly blurred and are useless for recognition/identification purposes.

But it has an extremely constricted range, and is useless when it comes to problems that extend beyond its range.

Animals and tractors used for plowing got mired in the muck and were useless.

Grudges are man-made, and are useless in our quest to become more like The Big Guy.