Books, dull knives, outmoded cameras — useless things.
She is always buying useless things from QVC.
"Even useless things can be useful," he said.
In nature, drone bees are poor, useless things that produce no honey and have no sting.
They may collect years' worth of useless things, like string, old newspapers, plastic bags and mail.
She liked to believe that it was men who made beautiful and useless things like the egret.
"The idea that you must produce all these useless things in order to grow, but we're not growing in our humanity," Ms. Westwood said in conclusion.
There is a passage in the writings of the Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu which teaches the value of apparently useless things.
In one episode Gerald and Kitten buy a truckload of useless things at a local auction, then decide on a yard sale to liquidate their overstock.
The sun king financed ébénistes (cabinet-makers), tapisseurs (upholsterers), menuisiers (carpenters) and other artisans who made beautiful and largely useless things for the court of Versailles.
Electric cookers – useless things – provoke the most ire, their inability to get hot or cool down with any efficiency is already well documented on this blog.
