Sentence examples for gratuitous accent from inspiring English sources

As Jamilah Lemieux writes at Ebony, "Her name is Raven hyphen alternate spelling of 'Simone,' complete with what could be considered a gratuitous accent mark... and yet she feels compelled to punch down at those who also have names that are also Black as a dice game at a church fish fry, but may not have hit the faux French mark as well as her own".

That silent accent mark at the end is just the tip of the iceberg--purely gratuitous.

Gratuitous, too.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

Literature is necessarily gratuitous.

Adding Glass felt gratuitous.

It was gratuitous.