Sentence examples for pointlessly from high-quality English sources.

• Yet even if the prospect of Palestinian unrest is muted, Mr Trump pointlessly risks stoking violence.

• Bruno managed to lose, though not before accepting a double from Stolarsky, which he beavered, pointlessly.

• However, the scheme appears to have been badly designed and actually paid businesses money to burn fuel pointlessly.

• This, alongside multi-tasking, is likely why the phone has 12GB RAM, which would seem pointlessly excessive in another phone.

• Through the peephole, she watched the pizza boy pointlessly ringing Arty’s doorbell until she could take it no more.

• It's worth getting one of these kits, however -- Maplin sells the HDMI adapter on its own (pointlessly gold-plated) for £12.99.

• However, a serious flaw in the implementation meant that businesses were given a financial incentive to burn resources pointlessly instead.

• A lockdown Christmas planned months ago would have been so much less painful for families whose hopes he pointlessly raised only to dash again.

Use pointlessly in a sentence.

• New carriages pop up every now and again; new franchises spend money pointlessly updating colour schemes; occasionally a new lift appears at a station.

• However, the scheme appears to have had serious flaws, resulting in a loophole which meant businesses were given a financial incentive to burn fuel pointlessly.

• And yes, I've frequently left my iPhone at home and gone watch-only, a liberating experience that vastly reduces the amount of time I spend pointlessly staring at an iPhone screen.

• Beyoncé is redefining the pop star and the meaning of the diva (a pointlessly gendered term, considering that male pop stars often exhibit all the traits of this type of female celebrity).

• The story is set quite early in the pandemic, at a time when it was possible for patients not to know much about the coronavirus and when doctors were still pointlessly prescribing hydroxychloroquine.

• To invest heavily in this instead of working towards fully decarbonising electricity and transport is like eating a crab with a gold-plated baby spoon, and then shrugging with feigned surprise as you stab pointlessly at the shell.

• There is a room with buckets and disinfectant for people having an experience with ayahuasca and another room for people taking something called the “ice bucket challenge” – and who are pointlessly being filmed on one of those stupid large phones while doing so.

• Known as the 'cash for ash' scandal, it has been alleged that the scheme, which was set up in 2012 to encourage Northern Irish businesses to use renewable energy sources, had serious flaws which meant they were given a financial incentive to pointlessly burn fuel.

pointlessly sentence examples

• When Martin steals a vital floppy disk from the western elite, the Stasi’s boffin is hilariously seen pointlessly slotting it into a gaping aperture on his Robotron A5120 (“the newest computer we have”), before concluding: “I think it’s the wrong kind of computer.”

• The Renewable Heat Incentive scheme, which was set up in 2012, was designed to encourage local businesses to use renewable heat sources, however it appears to have been seriously flawed in its implementation and instead paid businesses money to pointlessly burn fuel.

• Arguably, though a conversation with fellow hacks who know a lot more about buses than I do left unresolved the question of whether it will prove less manoeuvrable than the surprisingly manoeuvrable articulated "bendy" buses that Boris Johnson is gleefully - and rather pointlessly - phasing out.

• Above all, Trump supporters are “not politically correct,” which, as far as I can tell, means that they have a particular aversion to that psychological moment when, having thought something, you decide that it is not a good thought, and might pointlessly hurt someone’s feelings, and therefore decline to say it.