Example sentences for: senseless

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

  • The venues are many--from massive news coverage of the coming out of a television star named Ellen (I loved the "Yep, I'm Gay" title in Time magazine--it was more like "Of course, she's a big homo," since most of gay America had gaydared Ms. Degeneres from the second she walked onscreen) to the tragedy of the brutal and senseless killing of Matthew Shepherd.

  • Newsweek 's cover focuses more on America's gun culture but prefers to pronounce this a "senseless tragedy."

  • Beat them senseless with repetition.

  • Puffy, bureaucratic verbiage if often called gobbledygook, a word credited to Texas congressman Maury Maverick, who compared the tortuous (and torturous) prose of Washington bureaucrats to the senseless gobbling of turkeys.

  • In the 1940s, Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch deciphered the code hidden in this seemingly senseless choreography performed on vertical honeycombs in the darkness of the hive (reviewed in von Frisch 1967).


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