Sentence examples for were uselessly from inspiring English sources

Twenty-five or so people were waiting on a ramp next to an arrangement of barriers that were uselessly positioned on the sidewalk.

I could not lift my arms or use my hands, which were uselessly curled up into loose fists by atrophying muscles and tightening ligaments".

That said, some missions (like the 30 second ones) were uselessly easy and some missions were unnecessarily tedious and frustrating.

Mr Thaler's direction offers real hope of models that are truthful without being uselessly unwieldy.

You're classically awry – but where's the gain (or the end) in being uselessly melancholy?

As for me, I had been throwing out everything I had ever written and was uselessly, ceaselessly revising.

It's part of the mix on The ArchAndroid but it's uselessly reductive as a general description.

But it's not "the same kind of thing" — not unless your idea of "kind of" is uselessly expansive.

Like the elderly Nathan Zuckerman, he is uselessly afflicted with desire, and smothers his lust by asking Anya if she would like to type up the "strong opinions" he has been speaking into a Dictaphone.

Sarah Lazarovic, a photographer in Toronto, said she rues the day she bought a trick camera lens from a Russian dealer on the Internet that turned out to be uselessly cumbersome.

She preferred that I not go into the large room with her but didn't object to my staying in the small room, where I could hear her play phrases over and over and feel that I was uselessly eavesdropping on coded artistic secrets.