Sentence examples for largely gratuitous from inspiring English sources
Castellón Costa Azahar airport was one of the Valencia region's many grand and largely gratuitous building projects: the city of 800,000 people already had one airport with another in nearby Alicante serving a similar market.
Even more entertaining is the chapter on the colourful magus Dr John Dee, the model for Marlowe's Dr Faustus and Shakespeare's Prospero, a tale that requires a largely gratuitous diversion into the 16th century.
The exploration and planet-shaping functions of this phase are enjoyable, but they are largely obscured by a gratuitous amount of low-level tasks like warding off pirate invasions and manually moving trade goods from one system to another, over and over.
But the deal is not intended as a traditional product placement, according to executives at Ketchum Entertainment, Wendy's International and the longtime Wendy's advertising agency, Bates Retail, largely because consumers are increasingly perceiving placements as gratuitous or overzealous.
Note that gratuitous "lamely".
"They are not gratuitous.
Literature is necessarily gratuitous.
