Sentence examples for useless over from inspiring English sources

But he reasoned that radio would be useless over much of the route and its elimination translated into 90 extra gallons of gas.

The Awacs sitting on the tarmac at Manta are useless over Colombian soil; the jungle canopy effectively renders them blind for spotting small aircraft, Colonel Leonard explained.

12.30pm GMT 8th over: South Africa 28-3 (Amla 9, de Vlliers 3) So Johnson, having bowled one entirely useless over, has made the rest count and has 3 for 10 from 4 overs now.

Nobel poet Joseph Brodsky famously said that all that poetry and politics have in common are the letters "p" and "o". In a sense, that can be said to be the topic of Rachel Wiseman's "Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the Moral Responsibility to Be Useless," over at The Point.

As we will see in two of the following sections, a number of inventions become useless over time or are prohibited once long-term side-effects are visible.

His tongue, swollen and grey like a giant tick, flipped useless over his lips.

Simon J. Mason, the chief climate scientists at Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), said that there has been "a lot of essentially useless rainfall over the South Indian Ocean, but unfortunately not very much over Madagascar, and less rainfall over the land".

Pete twirled his ragged, useless umbrella over their heads.

And this particular idea seemed like an excellent way to express my otherwise useless fury over Rove-era politics".

It's an abysmal set of letters and I had useless scribblings over two or three sheets of A4.

Bernard Cazeneuve's office vowed "transparency and truth" to put an end to what it described as "useless speculation" over how Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was able to plough a heavy goods vehicle at 55mph (90kph) through crowds on the Promenade des Anglais on 14 July.