Sentence examples for to render useless from inspiring English sources

The British ships, which had fought at long range so as to render useless the smaller guns of the Germans, sustained only 25 casualties in this engagement.

But to introduce creaturehood as the distinguishing feature is to render useless the importance of defining creatures in terms of the lack of identity of their essence and their act of existing.

Motorcycle chains are typically at least 14mm thick and would required a powerful set of bolt cutters to destroy and render useless.

Equally, while the smartphone is a device that's intended to be taken everywhere — the pub, the loo, on a run — it is fragile and desirable enough to be rendered useless with just a few drops of water or an opportunistic thief.

So many things seemed brilliant at the time, only to be rendered useless by the end of the decade.

Some have family members stranded overseas, the U.S. visas they worked so hard to obtain rendered useless.  .

Taking antibiotics prophylactically leads to their being rendered useless when an infection truly strikes.

The accident propels Lisa into a kind of parallel universe in which anyone who might be helpful to her is rendered useless.

In accommodation blocks, smaller fires were lit and holes were smashed in walls to render locks useless.

In some cases, the disabled link sets off a small explosion in the warhead to render it useless.

Finding a parking space there is like prospecting for gold, especially since sloppily parked mastodons often occupy just enough of an adjacent space to render it useless.