How to Use pointless in a Sentence

pointless

adjective
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  • It would be pointless for us to continue the investigation.
  • By 2014, when the case reached the U.S. Court of Appeals, the case was pointless.
    — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 14 June 2021
  • 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
  • To be a part of that team, all that other stuff is just pointless.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • No broad redactions that make the whole task pointless.
    — al, 15 Mar. 2021
  • For a show that upholds the priceless, prices come to feel pointless.
    — Stephen Lurie, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2021
  • 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 piece was trying to be about my holding him and saying, your life was not pointless.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Trending This is the most pointless website on the planet.
    — Cristiano Lima-Strong, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • But the main thing for the moment is to prevent pointless and damaging cuts.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 29 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • There is also the simple fact that for most games these days, the physical disc is kind of pointless.
    — Britton Peele, Dallas News, 24 Nov. 2020
  • If that’s not the case, then the post-credits scene is only an Easter egg, and a pretty pointless one, too.
    — Ryan Britt, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Arguing that Cincinnati was the center of the 1970 sports world is pointless.
    — Mark Schmetzer, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The heads belong to minor characters, whose lives are the same as their deaths—pointless.
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Gurianov probably needed the goal the most, having went pointless for the first nine games of the season.
    — Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Racing away from light pollution on the night of the full moon is completely pointless because a dark sky will be impossible to find.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Through another lens, however, the whole undertaking would look as impotently pointless as one of Kei’s dams.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2024

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