How to Use worthless in a Sentence

worthless

adjective
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  • The boots may be nice, but they're worthless if they don't fit you.
  • She's depressed and believes that she's worthless.
  • The hand is full of losers, and the queen of spades may worthless for offense.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • My fine, fine son, at the top of his game, felt worthless and unloved.
    — cleveland, 29 Dec. 2019
  • If the Tour of Flanders were in June, the bike race might be worthless to botanists.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Our tanks are worthless if the souls who must steer them are made of clay. . .
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Miss the date, and that card becomes worthless to the customer.
    — Jordyn Holman, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2020
  • After the items were sent, the form of payment was found to be worthless.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2018
  • When the film ran its course after three or four days, the posters were worthless.
    — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 9 July 2019
  • This pre-match stuff would be worthless if the action wasn't a blast.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2018
  • The bottom line was that my $25 gift card was worthless.
    — Rich Exner, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2020
  • What’s fun and not destined to be worthless when you’re done with it?
    — David Netto, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Most of it winds up in the trash, unvalued and worthless.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The investments fell through, the classes were worthless, and the steaks weren’t all that good.
    — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 11 July 2017
  • But without a plan to back it up, his pledge may prove worthless.
    — John McCormack, National Review, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The land turned out to be worthless as an investment, too.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022
  • But none of that is what makes this law truly worthless.
    — J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The mixed glass, a whopping 75 percent of the total, is worthless.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • Which is yet more of a reminder of what a worthless number GDP is.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • He was stung by hornets and fell into the mud on what turned out to be worthless land.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The Lions did win the first matchup, which could lead you to believe Fields and the Bears’ secondary is worthless in this matchup.
    — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Boas was not surprised to learn that a lot of their findings were worthless.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The presents were worthless—and are now collecting dust.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 10 May 2018
  • Looking Ahead None of this is to say that AI in healthcare is worthless.
    — Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Yes, but only at the point that the entire system is worthless.
    — Jessica Royassistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The old coins can be spent through Sunday night but will be worthless in shops on Monday.
    — Bloomberg.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Crypto could change the world and still leave a lot of people with worthless tokens.
    — Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • If the partners lose interest, the stake might be as good as worthless.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • Trump Jr. said the information turned out to be worthless and was not used.
    — Mike Cason, AL.com, 14 July 2017
  • Still, a human would be almost completely worthless on a task like this.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025

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