Example sentences for: needlessly

How can you use “needlessly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You might think that, in an age of globalization and with the United States' fate increasingly tied to the fate of other nations, the United States' best newspaper would be careful not to run articles that needlessly feed xenophobia.

  • But there are other, better ways of transmitting the official White House line, contend Ann McDaniel (CBS's Face the Nation ) and George Stephanopoulos (ABC's This Week ). Stephanopoulos argues that the White House would not needlessly admit the existence of presidential love gifts, thereby undermining the Story of the Seventh Commandment that it is peddling.

  • Writing in the fall issue of Doubletake--Robert Coles' slick magazine of essays, photographs, reportage, and poetry--McKibben accuses commercial wildlife photographers of needlessly stressing caribou and other critters by stalking them by airplane.

  • House Majority Leader Dick Armey, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, and Senate Majority Whip Don Nickles claim that Milosevic was open to peace all along, that the war and its casualties were our fault, that we needlessly offended Russia, and that our "victory" is false.

  • (If the digital age seemed soulless and technocratic, we would probably be watching a re-released 2001 .) Computers got into people's homes when they stopped being thought of as needlessly expensive and vaguely inhuman ways to balance your checkbook, and started being sold as devices for your kids to play "educational" games on.


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