Sentence examples for were useless of from inspiring English sources

But surveyors found that 80percentt of announcements for train delays and reroutings were useless: of those, 16percentt were inaudible, 27percentt not made at all and 57 percent incomprehensible ("the train is being held by supervision").

Words were useless, of course, when it came to a response such as that produced by the achievement of Martine Wright, a marketing executive who lost her legs in the bombings of 7 July 2005 – the day after London had been awarded the Olympics – and went on to represent Britain in the sitting volleyball competition at the Paralympics.

The heater was useless, of course".

This feature is useless, of course, if your thermostat can't see the room -- say, if it's in a closet or behind an open door.

This feature is useless, of course, if your thermostat can't see the room — say, if it's in a closet or behind an open door.

So, with simple shapes and numbers, Dorothy's family erects its defenses against the immense and maddening emptiness; and these defenses are useless, of course.

It is useless, of course, to deny that a largely seat-of-the-pants approach to studying fossils had served paleontologists well since the early nineteenth century.

Spanish was useless on the streets of Jerusalem.

But even if they were taken home, the laptops would be useless for many of the Voise Academy students.

Moreover, the small nanoshells may easily diffuse out of the tumor and are useless for the purposes of PPTT [ 60].

The bra is useless for supporting anything of amplitude for more than a few minutes.