Sentence examples for useless before from inspiring English sources

The mass graves of 1914-18 produced a generation of unwanted and largely uneducated women written off as useless before they even grew up.

Years later, Steidl's father explained that he had believed the book, having been read through, was now useless; before buying the gift, he'd never been in a bookstore.

As is her wont, Ms. Rendell sends him down dead ends and around tricky curves, through interview after exasperating interview with suspects and witnesses who will prove all but useless, before she allows him to do any genuine crime-solving.

These are classic industry attempts to render bills useless before they even pass.

Even now, the dim and useless hours before supper on winter afternoons depress me.

Telecommunications equipment, medical devices and office products like copiers can all be rendered useless long before they wear out.

The door opened for Sergei Bobrovsky, and Boucher went off, stalking down the corridor to the dressing room, hurling his useless stick before him.

My own cellphone worked fine in Lower Manhattan early on the morning of 9/11, but as news of the World Trade Center attack spread, my phone became useless, even before the towers fell.

Then a thought which came to him — that soon the tide would be running in through the estuaries and his head would be submerged — inspired him to fearful activity; he wriggled and turned and exerted what strength he could (though his left arm, because of the pain in his shoulder, was useless), and before long he had freed himself from the vise.

Some of the proposed software solutions prefer to avoid of useless parts before the workflow becomes heavy.

3. A smart reverse logistics system can prevent the cost of processing returns that are not actually the responsibility of the manufacturer and prevent useless transportation before it begins.