Sentence examples similar to gratuitous land from inspiring English sources
"Gramercy represents N.Y.U.'s latest exercise in gratuitous land-grabbing," Mr. Beres wrote, "a $275 million splurge to transfer a luxury apartment building from the people of Manhattan to the far needier students of this poverty-ridden institution".
When the Israelite loses family property, he must live alongside members of his family as if he were a resident alien (25.35); but the reader is reminded that in relation to God, the entire community, settled by God of his own gratuitous gift in the land of Canaan, has the same status of resident aliens.
The murder has since been woven into Sweden's national memory as an emblem of inexplicable and seemingly gratuitous violence stalking their peaceful and well-ordered land.
On a spit of land without fancy restaurants, battles for parking spots, or gratuitous displays of opulence, both sets visit the same ice cream shop, small library and dilapidated first-run movie theater.
Note that gratuitous "lamely".
"They are not gratuitous.
Literature is necessarily gratuitous.
