Sentence examples for useless around from inspiring English sources

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"They're useless around here," scoffed Dr. Charles Lamberta, 55, a dentist who drives his Electric Blue Mini to work in Manhattan from Long Island every day.

Rebekka regards Sorrow as useless around the farm, while Lina, who has survived the devastation of her own tribe by a plague, sees the stranger as "bad luck in the flesh" and blames her for the early deaths of Rebekka's children.

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The merciless portrayal of illness makes this a painful film to watch: Lenin never stops groaning and muttering to himself, dragging his useless body around, collapsing as he tries to stand up, crawling on the ground.

Although there are still useless people around (and no money to get rid of them, until they retire), the capable are working full-out, under strain.Should the trusteeship council, presumably under a new name less worrying to the third world, be resurrected to run disabled countries?

As Chris Howarth and Steve Lyons wrote in The Completely Useless Encyclopedia (around the one billionth Doctor Who book published, as far as I can tell) back in 1996: "Doctor Who was created to entertain, coins to formalise a system of barter, trains as a method of transport, and stamps as a means of funding the postal service.

Many of the characters have what can only be called utterly banal superpowers, sometimes born of childhood trauma, such as the ability to levitate while concentrating particularly hard or the capacity to intuit useless facts about those around them.

All I can think about is all the useless connected objects around me.

One possible answer is that these capacities are the psychological equivalent of physical traits like testicles or ovaries, which are formed in infancy and then sit around, useless, for years and years.

If you have a useless Mac lying around, today is your lucky day.

The new Michael Winterbottom film, "Wonderland," is about three sisters — their hopes and fears, the useless men who mill around them, and the faint possibility that their lives might yet not be blighted.

They would come and go and often be pretty useless while they were around, but your friends were different.

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