"make useless" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a condition, situation, or thing that has been rendered useless due to lack of value or functionality. For example, "His poor communication skills made the meeting useless."
They don't just make useless appointments, they keep useless appointments.
Selection bias is insidiously seductive that way: It can make useless or even counterproductive interventions look as if they're working spectacularly.
Inside the transport chain, the node dedicated to the modal change represents the critical element in which, due to a wrong political organizational, design or operational procedures, it's possible to make useless the benefits acquired in the phases of transport.
It's a nonsense that we throw away so much and we make useless things to throw away when there are women walking 5 kilometers to fetch two pitchers of water.
The group rented an office on lower Broadway and offered, according to its business card, "practical esthetic services adaptable to client situation," which Nadin recalls as a mostly serious attempt to redirect the impulse to make useless art objects into some kind of socially helpful work for hire.
In a recent artist's book she describes, in her engagingly wonky English, that she "is not professional, enjoys the sun and making some art stuff … and talk art stuff and make useless work … Making mistakes for ever and showing what is not shown what is not there" [sic].
"All the explosions are made useless if you don't care about the characters," says Strandberg.
He advises small foundations to post a statement on a page preceding the 990, describing the grants they make and dissuading people from making useless requests.
In a recent research paper, he also argued that the material should be made useless for making bombs by diluting it with a plentiful form of uranium that will not sustain a nuclear reaction.
The 19th-century French mathematician Henri Poincaré summed up this creative role thus: "To create consists precisely in not making useless combinations.
"E-mail is the most incredible communication vehicle invented, and it is on the verge of being made useless," Mr. Linford said.
