Sentence examples for when useless from inspiring English sources

If nothing else, "I Vitelloni" and its 70's and 80's progeny remind us of a time when useless young men knew they were useless, and had the good grace to feel at least a little sheepish about it.

Lymphocyte development involves selection steps when useless or harmful clones are deleted by programmed cell death.

Why complain about RBS's timebomb disposal expert's pay when fairly useless footballers and their recently unsuccessful £6m manager get paid so much, asked emailers.

Moreover, computational efficiency has been much enhanced when those useless square-corners have been eliminated by using the proposed method.

Down is light, warm and compressible, but it is useless when wet. Fleece stays warm when wet, but is heavy and bulky.

Such a poor precision makes the method useless when comparing ligands with similar affinities or when comparing results obtained with different approaches or by different groups.

But 1996 Mandelson-speak is useless when business is kicking the hell out of Labour, and useless when people want the hell kicked out of bankers.

Creatine is useless when not combined with regular physical activity so ensure you exercise when supplementing with creatine.

By contrast, variable-mixture strategies were useless when between-field infections predominated (Fig. 2B, C) as the dilution effect is maximal when the proportions of S and R fields are similar.

Remember Ed Miliband when he was useless?

Test results are a currency which becomes useless when debased.