Sentence examples for were gratuitous from inspiring English sources

Since the students spoke English, the offers were gratuitous.

And so Obama salted his campaign speeches with ExxonMobil references even when they were gratuitous.

And, most damaging, there were gratuitous expressions of scorn for international opinion and support.

Leonard Koerner, the city's chief assistant corporation counsel, said he thought that the judges' criticisms were gratuitous.

He took some shots at Mitt Romney that were gratuitous considering the circumstances, as he privately acknowledges.

Last year the watchdog said images on the retailer's website were "gratuitous" and gave the "impression that the women were vulnerable and in sexually provocative poses".

It was gratuitous.

The scatology is gratuitous.

O.K. that was gratuitous.

"It was gratuitous and unnecessary.

"It was gratuitous," Murtha said.