Sentence examples for as a needless from inspiring English sources

Until recently, for instance, he took only cold showers because he viewed warm water as a needless expense.

Fourteen of the 15 Council members criticized or condemned the Israeli action as a needless mounting of violence.

Some people criticized anesthesia as a "needless luxury"; clergymen deplored its use to reduce pain during childbirth as a frustration of the Almighty's designs.

A candidate for this year's prize in Hebrew literature described the unfolding events as a "needless and shameful battering" — one whose consequences will linger.

Rabbis in several congregations are urging their Republican congregants to show up, lest the public dismiss the caucus as a needless accommodation.

Caledonian's "rebel" supporters staged a string of vehement protests, including a pitch invasion, against what they viewed as a needless merger with Thistle.

"Journey of Odysseus" was an "educational" cruise, and my father, although contemptuous of anything that struck him as being a needless luxury, was a great believer in education.

The idea that a black actor could be more bankable than a white one, or an intelligent heroine may actually attract audiences is simply not tested: challenge is a risk and, as such, a needless cost.

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The goal of Shelby County, Ala., and its friends on the Supreme Court is to depict Section 5 as an anachronism, a needless cudgel held by the big bad federal government over the head of a transformed South.

"Alex was simply trying to do the right thing by acting as peacemaker in a needless, drunken argument.