Sentence examples for appear to be useless from inspiring English sources

Ginseng and ginkgo are also used in some herbal weight-loss preparations, but these, too, appear to be useless for weight loss, Dr. Ko said.

Anxiety can appear to be useless at best and paralyzing at worst.

His left arm appeared to be useless.

Reacting to Justice Sosman's reference to the "Romeo and Juliet" line "That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet," the majority fired back: "The denomination of this difference by the separate opinion of Justice Sosman as merely a 'squabble over the name to be used' so clearly misses the point that further discussion appears to be useless".

Chapter 4, "Wasteful Design: Repetitive DNA Elements," addresses the issue of what appears to be useless DNA scattered broadly across the genome.

However, these efforts to select patients with emotional problems, aimed at increasing the contrast between patients in the intervention and control arms, appeared to be useless as the added detection method in routine practice did not function as expected.

ATA showed significant associations with prognosis (P < 0.001 for both survival and metastasis); but the odds ratios for ATA (1.070 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.030 1.112] for survival and 1.073 [95% CI 1.035 1.112] for metastasis) revealed that they appeared to be useless parameters in practice.

Sometimes parents teach their children things which appear to be quite useless at the time, but their value becomes clear much later on, though maybe not quite in the way that was intended.

It is for this reason that religions would appear to be worse than useless, yet they pervade, and continue to pervade, all known societies.

The App Store may seem innocent enough selling what appear to be fun and often-times useless applications, but each 99 cent purchase and installation of a new app is another nail in the metaphorical coffin of humanity and free will.

Patients appear to be even more likely to get useless prescriptions.