Sentence examples for run uselessly from inspiring English sources

The project was so poorly conceived that there is no reliable electricity to run pumps and purification tanks, and no money left to connect homes to the main sewer lines, which now run uselessly beneath Falluja's streets, according to a report by federal investigators to be released Monday.

In the early episodes, Mr. Godard appears in his darkened study, hammering away at an electric typewriter, apparently in the throes of creation; later episodes find him endlessly and uselessly running film back and forth through an editing machine; toward the end of the series, he has retreated to his bookshelves, flipping through texts in search of inspiration or insight.

It's a nice marriage of style and functionality and I look forward to it recording another one of my truncated, gasping runs as I try, uselessly, to become less of a slob.

During the show's original run, Essex was a dour world full of put-upon prisoners' wives knocking around uselessly inside beige shopworn World of Leather showhomes.

I, meanwhile, fumbled about uselessly.

Afterward, they bustled around his room uselessly.

Kendell tried to argue, but uselessly.

The king's chaplain, Thomas Cranmer, flutters, uselessly.

Her heels grind uselessly into the carpet.

She would wave her little hands uselessly in the air".

He held it uselessly over Mallon's head.