Sentence examples for are basically worthless from inspiring English sources

Wireless devices are basically worthless when they can't get a signal.

"If a researcher makes the patient-level data available in a PDF format, those data are basically worthless," Miller says.

Vitamin C degrades in water, for example, so any water-based Vitamin C tablets are basically worthless.

"Because of the state Mr. Barber allowed the building to deteriorate into, their investments are basically worthless," Lippman said of his clients.

Sullenberger described a system where pilots' salaries have been cut by 40%, pensions are basically worthless, and the best talent is shying away from the profession.

A week later, on October 12th, the Trump Administration launched their effort to bring us back to the days of "barebones" coverage – insurance policies that are basically worthless because they don't cover maternity care, mental health or substance abuse services, or even hospital stays.

There is only one problem: From a health perspective, the annual physical exam is basically worthless.

Conspicuously missing from the reasons cited by Ezekiel J. Emanuel for why the annual routine physical exam remains enshrined in American medical practice, despite its being "basically worthless," is the financial one.

But the snub implied that Lucas's pop-culture collateral -- six "Star Wars" movies, four "Indiana Jones" movies, the effects shop Industrial Light and Magic and toy licenses that were selling (at least) four different light sabers this Christmas -- was basically worthless.

The 99er featured in Michael Luo's article, a 49-year-old unemployed corporate worker named Alexandra Jarrin, is a late-in-life college graduate and onetime business school student who owes $92,000, as she put it, "for an education which is basically worthless".

But the snub implied that Lucas's pop-culture collateral — six "Star Wars" movies, four "Indiana Jones" movies, the effects shop Industrial Light and Magic and toy licenses that were selling (at least) four different light sabers this Christmas — was basically worthless.