Sentence examples for pointless run from inspiring English sources

Hopefully it will provide something more attractive to fans than a pointless run out to end the season.

He's rude and tactless, insulting towards women, and running a pointless campaign that's pretty much destined to lose.

Remember that, regardless of how successful you are in running away, you will likely end up returning home eventually, so it's probably pointless to run away in the long run.

"I wanted to see for myself if it was really pointless to run an independent press, in market terms," Das told me, over Skype.

You have nothing to contribute to human progress, you pointless philistine," ran the comments.

As far back as 1981, New York City created a "chronic alarm program" to cut down on pointless police runs.

Otherwise, that makes for one painful, pointless 26.2-mile run, if you ask me.

An admittedly extreme example concerns the Canadian-born philosopher Ted Honderich, whose book On Consciousness was described, in an article by his fellow philosopher Colin McGinn in 2007, as "banal and pointless", "excruciating", "absurd", running "the full gamut from the mediocre to the ludicrous to the merely bad".

Arguments over purism are pointless in the long run; nothing is pure.

"Distorting grades would be unfair on the pupils involved and could result in universities having to artificially inflate their entrance requirements, rendering it pointless in the long run".

Also, you could run into pointless bidding wars, which drive up the prices.