Sentence examples for something senseless from inspiring English sources

Something terrible happened to Venecia Barona Mosquera, something senseless but horribly common among the people who have been displaced from the parts of Colombia brutalized by war and who have sought uncertain refuge here in the squalor of a shantytown named Nelson Mandela.

"Words cannot capture the horror, or make sense of something so senseless," he said.

"It falls to a president at times like these to not only pull the country together in its grief but to try to explain and make sense of something so senseless," writes Peter Baker in the piece.

While there is no ongoing threat he needs to manage from the White House, it falls to a president at times like these to not only pull the country together in its grief but to try to explain and make sense of something so senseless.

In the same manner, consequences occur naturally when one utters a lie, steals something, commits senseless violence or leads a life of debauchery.

I know this is an offensive statement to many who have lost children to suicide or have been victims of something as senseless as mass murder.

Coming from someone who has been accused of being capable of committing a violent crime, there is no motive behind something as senseless as a mass shooting.

When you look into the eyes of a mom who has just lost a baby from something as senseless as tetanus, you know that you can't stop until that number is zero".

But in Norway kids aren't cut from the same cloth if you're found to be chasing babes more than partaking in quality bro time your friends will punish you by forcing you to do something irrationally senseless like getting a tattoo of your own butt, a Barbie doll, or even a McDonald's receipt and 18-year-old Stian Ytterdahl decided that the latter was best.

A sometime hunter in his youth, Elwin thinks he can make something of this senseless death.

How do you make sense of something so fundamentally senseless?