Sentence examples for meaningless contest from inspiring English sources
Their debuts came in a meaningless contest, with the Mets comfortably ahead.
Coach Ken Whisenhunt reluctantly made a final decision after the fourth meaningless contest, naming John Skelton the starter.
Allowing Mr McDonnell a national platform for the sake of a largely meaningless contest was of limited appeal.
But history suggests that the entertainment value will come mainly from Saturday's otherwise largely meaningless contest for third place.
England today dealt a huge psychological blow /lost in a meaningless contest to the tottering/marginally improved Australians.
LORI GRUEN, A. BREEZE HARPER, CAROL J. ADAMS The contest is harmless This is a panel of five, for heaven's sake, for a meaningless contest.
It does have that Harlem Globetrotters feel in which names are used to sell meaningless contests.
But just imagine: Right now, mayors do verbal jousting over meaningless contests between teams that are merely named for wildlife — Chicago Cubs versus St . Louis Cardinals Anaheim Ducks versus San Jose Sharks, Atlanta Hawks versus Charlotte Bobcats, and so on, through an entire zoo's worth of rivalries.
In practical terms, the straw poll is a meaningless "beauty contest" that does not award any delegates.
It was dismissed by the hawkish Bush administration as a meaningless popularity contest that wimpy liberals wanted to engage in.
But some Obama supporters denounced Mrs. Clinton's act as cynical and urged voters and journalists to dismiss Florida as a meaningless beauty contest.
