Sentence examples for was practically useless from inspiring English sources

"Before long — you know what happened to tuitions — it was practically useless," Mr. Greenberg said.

"We came to adoption only because at some point we understood that all the rest was practically useless," Ms. Kolesnichenko wrote, describing a sense of futility visiting orphanages with gifts for children and donations of diapers.

Two other studies found scant evidence that a standardized checklist led to better reviews, while two more revealed that training reviewers was practically useless.

Hence, nothing can ever be "practically useless" — at least, not in the long run.

A word of warning: The set up directions are practically useless.

Hence nothing can ever be practically useless, at least not in the long run".

Providing speech and language therapy to a child with undiagnosed hearing loss is practically useless.

He is practically useless on the court (averaging 2.7 points and 2.5 rebounds), but his $3 million salary will help the Nets acquire Richard Hamilton from Detroit.

The maps we were given were practically useless: many streets lack names, and the route described did not account for Rome's many one-way streets.

Too many of them — roughly 40 percent, according to a 2000 study I conducted with the Department of City Planning and the Municipal Art Society and that still holds today — were and are practically useless, with austere designs, no amenities and little or no direct sunlight.

It would only have been practically useless…" Needless to say, the writer remains unaware of the emptiness of what he elsewhere refers to as their "decency," in the absence of a "higher moral meaning".