Sentence examples for something useless from inspiring English sources

To kill; to go to such efforts to acquire something useless, is just baffling".

We either map the city in its fullness or we produce something useless.

Locals call them karab, meaning "something useless", says environmental scientist Tarig El Gamri, standing atop one such mound.

When she moved to California, she was shocked that people had the "idea to capitalize on it or to try to con your neighbors into something useless".

It did my English professor heart good to see that metaphor still meant something in the world and it could be applied to something practical like politics, instead of something useless like literature.

"We had a pretty good idea that we wanted to do something useless -- or entertaining," Mr. Kitano said as he stood by two Aibo specimens and one PINO, a storm trooper-like humanoid that may someday play soccer.

"You are going to see a documentary about someone who's been loving what he's doing, but he's doing something totally useless," he says.

They're talking about cost savings to crucial BBC services like breaking news and local radio, which should be their priorities, and they're wasting money and resources on something as useless and superficial as this, it's daft".

I've never wanted something so useless so much.

There seems to be a general trend toward applied rather than fundamental research and fairly close collaboration with industry, although I personally am doing my best to research something as useless as possible.

From there you can find demos here and here, with available applications including a weather forecaster, Delicious Notifier, and an Ad blocker (there's also an app that will mix up the images seen in your open browser tabs, if you're looking for something truly useless).