Sentence example with the word 'uselessly'

uselessly

Definition adv. in a useless manner

Last update: August 28, 2015


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His fleet, too, lingered uselessly in the harbour, till after a defeat in which Eurymedon perished, though the simultaneous land attack was unsuccessful.   [Please select]

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And his division remained under fire for some time quite uselessly.   [Please select]

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You are only exciting yourself uselessly.   [Please select]

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He was fond of his father, mother, brothers and sisters, and it would grieve them beyond expression if he should uselessly sacrifice himself.   [Please select]

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Labour exerted and expenditure incurred uselessly, or in pure waste, and yielding neither direct enjoyment nor permanent sources of enjoyment.   [Please select]

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And again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, and again it turned uselessly in the same place.   [Please select]

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The whole battle consisted in what Orlov-Denisov's Cossacks had done: the rest of the army merely lost some hundreds of men uselessly.   [Please select]

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It would be imperiling our lives uselessly to go aloft with the overheated gas that is now in the bag.   [Please select]

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[The king of Bantam is too young to negotiate with, and too much money would be spent uselessly.   [Please select]

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-- thus uselessly multiplying names, and rendering the study of the subject more complicated and difficult.   [Please select]

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Then he quitted, and the speed he had put up previously was nothing to that which he showed now--uselessly.   [Please select]

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