Example sentences for: pointlessly

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

  • Still, there are passages that, while perfectly clear in the Spanish-language original, re-emerge in translation as pointlessly obscure.

  • Le Monde 's editorial Sunday said the action might be "terribly counterproductive" because it won't change the minds of Serbs who believe Milosevic's propaganda, but it will appear pointlessly destructive of human lives to those who don't.

  • I went to one "salad bar" where not only did I not see anything that reminded me of a vegetable (and by the way, I'm intentionally going to skip the reflexive but pointlessly callous joke I could make about the customers, who I'm sure upon closer examination were lovely and admirable people), but among the "salad ingredients" being offered was a dish of chocolate pudding.


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