Sentence examples for because they were useless from inspiring English sources

Much of the woodland of the Northeast was destroyed by heavy logging during that time, but many of New York's hardwood trees were spared because they were useless as lumber, on inaccessible peaks and hillsides or far from streams used to float lumber to towns.

They likened themselves to music ethnographer Alan Lomax, who according to them was once told as a boy to burn a transcription of cowboy songs by a teacher because they were useless.

Some had lost their keys ages ago because they were useless, while others never had locks to begin with.

Do you know that in the U.S. alone, 300 million day-old male chicks are killed -- often ground up alive -- because they are useless to the egg industry?

Of them, 188 were squelched by DHS reviewers because they are useless or may have broken rules meant to guard civil liberties, the report said.

This is because these items do not work with the other items harmoniously to measure the same construct, not because they are useless or unimportant to hospital performance.

When the Harbor Wind Blows ALMA BROWN had three boxes of votive candles left from another party, but they were useless because of the stiff wind off Sag Harbor Bay.

Some cannons eventually arrived with a contingent of North Carolina men, but they were useless because they lacked mountings and carriages.

But they were useless because the test strips were always out of stock.

They were useless until dawn, because their bosses were locked away with Mr. Pronk.

Addressing a group of former communist rebels, the Philippines president said his armed forces should not kill female rebels but shoot them in their genitals because without them they are useless.