Sentence examples for is to no purpose from inspiring English sources

Prism claims Grippes wasted his talent writing tomfool letters; Grippes says Prism's talent is to no purpose and that he symbolizes the state of English letters since the 1950s.

Locke continues by asserting that "law is to no purpose without punishment" (Locke 1663 64, 113).

Princess Sophia, who was observing the conversation, "defied him to do it; he ran all over the garden a long time to look for some but it was to no purpose" (4th letter to Clarke, G 7 372; AG:327 8).

But then how can you make sure your deepest purpose is to no longer have a job?

His greatest luxury is to have no purpose… Like Penn, Benjamin preferred phenomena to ideas and curiosities to treasures.

When public money is spent to no purpose it is usually wasted.

At the age of 90, Dick Richards, who said that he had never fully recovered from those months on the Barrier, added this: "That the effort was unnecessary, that the sacrifice was made to no purpose, in the end, was irrelevant.

Their purpose is to be no one's sons and daughters.

"Disbanding Ofgem to create Ofgem II is posturing to no purpose.

"Real misery is being caused to no good purpose". Solicitor Rebekah Carrier, who represented the claimants, said: "The benefit cap has had a catastrophic impact upon vulnerable lone parent families and children across the country.

I love being "taught" something worthwhile — but I don't love being "distracted" to no purpose.