Sentence examples for the pointless from inspiring English sources

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the pointless

adjective

Having no point or sharp tip; terminating squarely or in a rounded end.

  • A pointless sword

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The pointless sidewalk queues elude him, though.

Flaubert investigated the banal, the "mysterious power of the pointless".

The pointless border clash between Ethiopia and Eritrea has stopped.

I liked the pointless, unmusical chaos of the musical numbers.

But "theatre" is reserved for the manipulative and the pointless.

But he hated the bureaucracy of it, the dumb rules, the pointless assignments.

The little chips and gouges in the frame are a dispiriting reminder of the pointless assault.

The shrillness of the pointless noise made a foreigner in the car next to him wince.

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To many Syrians, the extreme violence seems all the more pointless for the lack of results.

The space group was determined using the program POINTLESS from the CCP4 program suite [30].

Hickeys are the most pointless thing in the entire world.

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