Sentence examples for pointless months from inspiring English sources

She was eventually granted asylum and released earlier this year but not before spending long, and pointless, months in custody.

The poets of the Danrin school, headed by Nishiyama Sōin and Saikaku, insisted that it was pointless to waste months if not years perfecting a sequence of 100 verses.

It's just a mind-numbing, soul-chilling, body-destroying slog, month after month, year after pointless year.

The Security Council's pusillanimity in the face of the slaughter is not in dispute, but what are we to make of Annan's certainty that it would have been pointless to raise the alarm months earlier?

We want to race him as a 4-year-old and, if you run a mile-and-a-half race that knocks you out for three months, it's pointless".

Just another casualty in an 18-month-long, rather pointless, battle between the Departments of State and Commerce.

Where President Barack Obama can be blamed is in wasting months in analysis/paralysis and pointless diplomatic maneuvering before launching air strikes against Isis.

Mr. Annan, he said, might "waste a month or two of pointless mediation efforts".

What about the supposedly pointless Confiscation Act, which Congress passed in early August 1861, a few months after the war began?

"If the scan shows the tumours have been over-enthusiastic during the last couple of months, then – as I understand it – chemo would be pointless.

A couple months ago I wrote about how Facebook applications were (obviously) pointless if they didn't work.