Sentence examples for pointless use from inspiring English sources

The peer, who spent almost an hour booking the ticket, in a "completely pointless use of my time", said a further problem was that her busy schedule meant she did not always know her travel times a day in advance.

"L'Agneau du Kent de Chez Allen's of Mayfair" (Mr Allen being a local butcher) seemed an irritatingly pointless use of provenance - what do people expect when they're charging these prices?

Whole sentences completely lost any meaning, and it seems pointless using voice and speaking at 30 words per minute when you have a perfectly capable input device in front of you capable of 60 , 90or over 100 words per minute (specifically on instant messaging, where a whole new English lexicon has formed with shortened words and phrases).

Suing the president of the United States is usually a totally pointless exercise, but Allred is used to challenging powerful men.

However, it all seems pretty pointless to use this service if the majority of your users aren't using the main feature of the service, the mobile plan.

Some doctors say it is pointless to use so many different substances.

No, it's not going to save the planet, but as a small step towards cutting pointless resource use, and cleaning up our towns, cities, countryside rivers and seas, this truly is an easy win.

"I should've been smarter to know that it would be pointless to use comparisons like I did to readers who most likely don't understand the scenario and that my words would seem very negative in nature".

"For some European countries, national pride is seen as a luxury, but for Russia it is a necessity," said Putin, adding that it was pointless to use threats when speaking to Russia.

As I've mentioned repeatedly in these pages, it is close to pointless to use today's polls or coverage to predict what will happen in November (or even at the end of the GOP primary).

It would also render pointless the use of the algorithm for finding the K optimal hyperpaths in the resulting hypergraph, since having considered each synthesis plan explicitly one could just as well have evaluated the cost of each in the process, while keeping track of the K best.