Sentence examples for were virtually useless from inspiring English sources
Repellants were virtually useless.
In the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, for example, defenses designed to repel a seaborne invasion were virtually useless in responding to a limited artillery attack, analysts said.
Gallo nonetheless publicly disparaged the French team's research, insisting that Montagnier's viral samples could not be grown in culture and hence were virtually useless for research.
Hall plainly took the view that the DMI "assets" were virtually useless and that a clear-the-deck total write-off was appropriate.
Tyrie said amendments tabled by the government on Monday to "electrify" the ringfence that banks are required to set up to keep high street operations separate from investment banking were "virtually useless".
Mr. Seligman says that while virtually every inch of his listing's 770 square feet of outdoors earns its keep, he has seen terraces that were virtually useless, recalling one reachable only by climbing out a window, and tiny Juliet balconies overlooking dark alleys.
Although occasionally cute, baby humans are virtually useless.
Your foot may look fine, but it's virtually useless.
He had a camera too, but it was virtually useless in the murk of the Hudson.
Virtual charter schools, the ultimate extension of this model, have been shown to be virtually useless.
