Example sentences for: needlessly

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

  • Whether he has the right to be needlessly careless in his statements is perhaps another matter.

  • (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.

  • Nearly everyone agrees today that the Vietnam War was unwinnable and was needlessly prolonged so America could save face.

  • 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.

  • ) As Fest notes, the plans were always contingent; they were also needlessly intricate.


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