How to Use pointless in a Sentence

pointless

adjective
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  • It would be pointless for us to continue the investigation.
  • There’s a crack and shards on the ground and Angela is left holding the pointless piece.
    — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Is there any truth to this or is this some bizarre, pointless trend?
    — Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Hanas has been in a mini-slump, pointless in his last 3 games.
    — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 8 May 2022
  • If a phone does not have a long-throw zoom of at least 5x, a Moon mode is largely pointless.
    — WIRED, 19 Mar. 2023
  • But then, pointless betrayal is par for the course for these two.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
  • Before moving to the top line, Seguin had been held pointless in four straight games.
    — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The strange appeal of ‘Burgers,’ both the show and the film, is precisely in its mix of the mundane and the pointless (or, to be kinder, the absurd).
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • With nowhere to go back to, being aggrieved over the delay seemed pointless.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The point of diplomacy This isn’t to say that diplomacy and face-to-face talks are pointless.
    — Michael Beckley, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The war has made those plans pointless, those memories painful.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The decision by the person in the video was wrong, repugnant, and pointless.
    — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Declaring winners or losers at the trade deadline is a pointless task.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The change was largely made at the request of sailors, who saw the rule as pointless and irritating.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Enough self-loathing over the pointless scrolling that robs endless hours, not to mention our self-respect.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • But the fans have a job, too, because if there weren’t any viewers the whole exercise would be pointless.
    — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Gurianov probably needed the goal the most, having went pointless for the first nine games of the season.
    — Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • At this point, McCarthy's scolding of Greene is pointless.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • All who grew up around kids that had BB guns are aware that this pointless little gun meant lots of sparrows were shot and left lay.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The resolution against Schiff is pointless and could cost them their seats.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
  • Kyiv was being cut off from the outside world, the start of a cruel and pointless campaign of destruction.
    — Elena Rubashevska, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Cow essays are pokey and nerdy and pointless with fact after fact after fact.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
  • People broke into the cash machines and stole televisions, but some of the spoils were pointless, Tanya said.
    — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Fun for a couple of minutes on private land, but somewhat pointless for the other 99.9 percent of the time.
    — Wired, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Critics say the crackdown on refugees is pointless when Japan needs to import labor.
    — Joseph Coleman, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • Somewhere out there, though, is a product that seems pointless to me but gives you zaps of joy by solving a tiny problem.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But worrying about the playoff race this early in the season is pointless.
    — oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2022
  • But now some of these advocates think the compromise may be pointless.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • That number was enough for Mrs. Pelosi to avoid pointless brinkmanship over the past two years and pass an ambitious agenda for Mr. Biden.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • What may seem somewhat pointless to anyone who loves to play with a rainbow of shades is, to me, ingenious.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 1 Mar. 2022

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