Sentence examples for useless items from inspiring English sources
Why players hold on to so many essentially useless items remains a mystery.
He must beg, borrow and steal to gather seemingly useless items: defective prosthetic products, spoiled fish bait, pirate perfume, a stolen pen.
But I felt stupidly smug when I reached the other side and wondered why our government spends our money on such useless items as traffic lights and why we do not take full advantage of the horns on our vehicles.
The remaining 300 million or so -- that's 10 million shiny new useless items punched out every day by government workers who could be more usefully employed tracking counterfeiters -- go toward driving retailers crazy.
The bride and groom have registered at Crate & Barrel for an outrageous number of useless items, including corn holders, egg cups, those little stirrers that are used only for mint juleps, a pizza stone, and thirty-eight slightly different spatulas, even though the bride and groom have lived together with a perfectly satisfactory number of spatulas for more than three years.
She remembered everything: crowds of men going nowhere in army-surplus sandshoes and khaki overcoats, men with swags of dead rabbits for sale, men with small suitcases full of useless items (no more than an excuse to talk), like those small bottles of startling green and red dye that her mother bought.
-- Anne Christensen Design: Fun Factor "It's easy to make a useless item amusing -- remember the Pet Rock?
Their target is a slender naïf named Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), a teen-ager who happens to hold the key to the universe or some such useless item.
I don't have an umbrella, Edinburgh renders the umbrella a useless item, it's the only city that has horizontal, and sometimes UPWARD rain.
Shipping is always $5, and occasionally they sell "Random Crap" that can be a useless item or something incredible like a new LCD display for $20.
EAGLE-EYED publishers will have noticed a discernible trend in contemporary Christmas stockings: that the pot pourri of little bits of coal, tangerines, chocolate coins and other semi-useless items should also include a small book that fits neatly into one's handbag or above the cistern.
