| He was yelling and crying, reaching out desperately and uselessly past the restraining arms in a vain attempt to bring his friend back. |
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| I pursed my lips together, willing myself not to babble on uselessly about what he'd been doing wrong. |
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| Boats toss on their moorings or lay slumped on their sides on the beach, propped uselessly. |
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| When we spend our time uselessly, we not only miss timely opportunities, but our progress in life also is delayed. |
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| A plea has been made on behalf of the Augustinian Missions for any old Irish notes or coins which may be lying around the house uselessly. |
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| Unable to help in our escape, I pushed with my right leg as best as I could while the other leg lolled and bumped uselessly on the ground. |
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| I shrugged uselessly, before I turned to hear Alex's laugh vibrating in the room. |
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| The crippled Ferrari emerged into the light with no front wing, a damaged nose cone and the left front wheel dangling uselessly at an angle. |
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| I found that I have a few other offprints of earlier articles of mine, sitting there uselessly on the shelf. |
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| His sinewy arms flailed around uselessly, his legs kicked furiously, but the ocean's grip on him only got stronger as it pulled him further down. |
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| In one case, we inadvertently put a repeater smack in the middle of a dead zone, where it sat, uselessly hunting for a signal to amplify. |
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| Dio's mind flitted uselessly, trying to come up with an idea, a plan, an escape, but without hope. |
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| Does he think charging around needlessly conceding possession and struggling uselessly to win it back is the way forward? |
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| Distant lights beckoned yellowly, and Gideon moved towards them, his collar pulled uselessly up about his neck. |
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| The objective may seem to some an unworthy one but it takes account of the realities without repining uselessly over them. |
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| I had rejections, a string of unrequited loves that I laid awake at night uselessly pining over, and once I even got caught in a bear trap. |
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| With so much money, it could easily fulfil its responsibilities, but it prefers to spend uselessly. |
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| This personnel, on the other hand, could not be allowed to remain idle between conflicts and become demoralized by uselessly awaiting action. |
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| In this way, He is voluntarily concerned with not exposing us uselessly to that which would lead to our ruin. |
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| Is it not better that these be made available for research purposes, with parental permission, rather than they be uselessly destroyed? |
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| It is of great importance to take thought for the morrow, while not fretting and worrying ourselves uselessly. |
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| If the beauty business deceives people into spending money uselessly or harmfully, should it be stopped from doing so? |
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| Boralex uses more than 2 million tonnes of residue that would otherwise be uselessly burnt or buried. |
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| I'm just uselessly twisting a thousand things around in my head. |
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| Back outside on the streets of Portland, I spun around as uselessly as a dowsing rod. |
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| He had already prophesied that people will worship him uselessly and will believe in doctrines not made by God but by men. |
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| So instead I am alternating between gazing uselessly out of the window and staring blankly at this screen trying to string a few sentences together! |
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| Héma-Québec feels that the decision by the three CSN unions to strike again on May 27 and May 28 will prolong the labour conflict uselessly. |
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| Out in the street, stalled taxis blast their horns uselessly. |
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| They irritate one another so uselessly by calling one another fools, blockheads, liars, and so forth, for no purpose. |
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| He hung from the crossbar, his legs dangling uselessly in mid air. |
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| Moreover, the delays in arresting the principal fugitives further lengthens, uselessly, the timetables for the work of the Tribunals. |
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| I've made my vow of martyrdom, but I don't want to expose myself recklessly and uselessly to persecutions and martyrdom. |
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| Common to the traditional method and the GIN-Method is the intention to avoid uselessly high takes of grout. |
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| Their automatic rifles hung uselessly on their shoulders as they kicked up a cloud of red dust. The tribe took care to mete out justice evenly. |
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| Mr Thaler's direction offers real hope of models that are truthful without being uselessly unwieldy. |
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| Miles of twisting stainless-steel pipes and huge storage tanks gleam uselessly in the sun. |
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| However, continuous ventilation is expensive in terms of energy costs: electricity for the ventilators, uselessly heating the new air then rejecting it outside? |
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| He is a cousin of Reynard the Fox, whom he uselessly tries to convince to return to the path of righteousness. |
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| At first your arms flail uselessly short of the required hold, and when you do get the direction right, you may mistime the gripping mechanism, sending your climber into the abyss. |
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| At the time of its opening, the joke went that the Eye was a perfect symbol of contemporary British political culture, going around and around uselessly and getting nowhere in the process. |
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| I thank the member for Peterborough for eating up some time uselessly. |
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| The purpose of the derogation is to avoid uselessly lengthening the lists of ingredients while maintaining consistency with the proposal's objectives. |
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| We are witnessing tragic moments, in human and political terms, that demand of all of us not to fall into uselessly reiterated condemnations which do not offer anything in the search for solutions. |
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| As I signalled desperately, he went into reverse but as he revved up the only result was the grinding squeal of steel against steel as the tracks churned uselessly against the sides of that forgotten stone boat. |
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| The perpetrator was aware that the nature of the bullets was such that their employment would uselessly aggravate suffering or the wounding effect. |
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| Sometimes, however, the efforts demanded are very considerable, if not even impossible: the risk is the patient uselessly wears himself out without achieving a significant result. |
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| According to the second principle, it is prohibited to cause unnecessary suffering to combatants: it is accordingly prohibited to use weapons causing them such harm or uselessly aggravating their suffering. |
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| He went on to say that public authorities should guard against losing sight of this truth, for fear of becoming like a machine that hums uselessly and is likely to cause injury. |
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