Sentence examples for useless task from inspiring English sources

This is a trivial example; still, what we see here, as Drum notes, are real resources being devoted to the socially useless task of getting an economic number slightly before the hoi polloi.

They experienced baseball, went to the circus at Madison Square Garden and, for air defense purposes, learned to identify silhouettes of German fighter planes, a useless task as it turned out.

Funding conferences abroad is a useless task.

Looking for the source of the difference is an endless and useless task.

If not, take some of those drug suppression taxes and lazy cops off what has been proven in countless studies is a useless task.

"If I had to guess why it is popular I think it's because of how complicated the electronics look but in the end they are used to perform such a silly and useless task," he told The Creators Project.

I offered to do useless tasks like make sandwiches and pass bottled water from two feet away.

A stripped-down cell could have extra biochemical pathways engineered into it, to make useful chemical products such as drugs and fuels, without any fear that the cell's resources would be diverted to other, useless, tasks.

This helps me stay sane, prioritise well, scrap useless tasks, and do what matters.

What!?! I don't know whether it's good or bad, but you do get used to these absurd long workdays, useless tasks and terrible organization.

In a particularly hilarious moment, they invite two male audience members to the stage, the show's only interruption, where Nostbakken is an over excitable, excessively thankful female host while the men do literally useless tasks.