Sentence examples for are for nothing from inspiring English sources

But as the mouse has been digitally removed from the film, the efforts are for nothing.

"Without changing the laws or improving people's condition, those ads campaigns are for nothing … There's got to be something beyond dialogue to change the way we do things".

An understanding of the manipulative power of metaphor is not new to rhetoricians; as John Locke (2004) observed in 1698, "…all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment and so, indeed, are perfect cheats".

Diodorus Cronus, against whom Chrysippus argued, claimed that (1) truths about the past are necessary: it is not merely that they aren't other than they are they can't be other than they are, for nothing has the power to change the past (Epictetus, 38A).

Those missiles aren't shaped the way they are for nothing.

The worrying sense that everything you have is just an illusion, a quirk in the banking system, that all those zeroes you keep checking on your iPhone Coutts app are for nothing and the ordinary population out beyond the gates would happily see your head on a pike if they could just find a way.

"The referendum is for nothing.

Their efforts haven't been for nothing.

It had all been for nothing.

It would have all been for nothing.

All this austerity has been for nothing.