Like a strip of lip-colored lead suspended from her poor little nose by two tugging wire-gray wrinkles her persistently conscientious sickroom smile seemed to be whanging aimlessly against her front teeth.
Altogether aimlessly her small chin began to burrow deeper and deeper into her big fur collar.
Thinking thus, he strayed aimlessly and unconsciously in courts and corridors.
Heedless of the sky, Marcian rode forth this morning; rode aimlessly about the hills, for the villa was no longer endurable to him.
At that hour I was standing at the window, gazing aimlessly into the solitude of Catchpole Square, when my attention was arrested by movements at Mr. Boyd's street door.
The two or three idle persons who were staring aimlessly at the walls as Dick and Gracie came near regarded the appearance of the new-comers as an agreeable diversion, and gazed at them instead.
But the pen only wandered aimlessly over the paper, and in a moment fell again from his nerveless fingers.
He gave Bancroft a cigar, lighted one himself, made some jokes as he bustled aimlessly around the room, and at last sat down on the foot of the bed, facing the banker, who occupied the only chair in the little room.
Conrad pondered it as he rode aimlessly about, still smarting under the thought of Bancroft's deception during the last few months.
Even to walk across it was a test of skill; so slimy was the mud that one's feet slidaimlessly about in any direction but the one desired.
At times the back wheel churned up the sand aimlessly in an endeavour to get a grip on something solid.
The town's business stopped; people left their stalls and shops to glare aimlesslyat or to ask inane and unintelligible questions about the barbarian who seemed to have dropped suddenly from the heavens.
Fearing lest he should betray some symptoms of his perturbed mind to the keen eyes around the supper-table at home, he wandered along aimlessly until the time for that meal should pass, and his thoughts become more serene.
The book was finally tossed aside, and its reader betook herself to pacing ceaselessly and aimlessly through the rooms, with her hands behind her back and her eyes bent on the floor.
Very soon she was again wandering here and there, aimlessly and wearily, under the influence of her disturbed thoughts.
I remained in England a few weeks longer, wandering aimlessly hither and thither, and then at last returned to Vienna and plunged into the vortex of gaiety at Court, in order to forget my sorrow.
She picked up the receiver as it hung dangling aimlessly from the stand and replaced it on its clip.
By the time she was four years old she was trying to imitate, with uncertain little feet and dimpled, aimlesslywaving arms, the movements of her mother, when to amuse the child, she would sometimes dance for her.
He got up and strode aimlessly back and forth, coming at last to a standstill in front of her.
Thus swayed by opposing currents, his heart and brain drifted aimlessly to and fro for a space, while still a strange and unreal tinge of romance was given to his life by the ever onward and favouring current of the golden tide.
Marched through a large yard in which a number of prisoners were sitting or standing aimlessly about, Lance became aware that a great change had taken place in his status and prestige.
She left the crowd by the riverside, and wandered aimlessly among the empty houses, resisting the impulse that pushed her towards Almayer's campong to seek there in Nina's eyes the secret of her own misery.
His bloodshot eyes wandered aimlessly from face to face.
The rooms were unlighted, the men were aimlesslymarching up and down, some were lying on the floor, probably sickening for typhus.
I saw them tramping aimlessly along windswept, rain-washed roads, fleeing from burning and devastated villages.
It was----" And five minutes later Hutchinson Hatch found himself wandering aimlessly up and down the sidewalk.
At last, when the village was well behind, the car came to a dark little road which wandered off aimlessly through a wood, and the Burglar slowed down to turn into it.
Limply she slid downward in her chair, one groping hand straying aimlessly to her forehead, then dropping of its own weight.
One day, towards evening, while he walked down Piccadilly, looking aimlessly at the people and asking himself what their inmost thoughts could be, he felt a hand on his shoulder, and a cheery voice called out his name.
From the darkness, as if it were the scene of a play, James watched the cabs and 'buses pass rapidly in the light, the endless procession of people like disembodied souls drifting aimlessly before the wind.
The limpid air softened his heart; he thought for a moment that if he could wander aimlessly with Mary, gossiping without purpose, they might end by understanding one another.
The man who found himself standing aimlessly on the sidewalk of the Rue St. Jacques, was a man clothed in an old and ill-fitting suit of Captain Harris' clothes.
A quarter of an hour later, they reached the main plaza, Rodman still mystified and Saxon walking on aimlessly at his side.
His steps wandered aimlessly along Pall Mall, and, after the usage of former habit, carried him to a club, where past experience told him he would meet old friends.
His mind was swimming aimlessly round, like a fish in warm water, as he said to himself.
He wandered aimlessly into his study, sat down at his writing table, rested his elbows upon it, his chin on his hands, and stared out upon the garden without moving for nearly an hour.
He rushed from his private office on various pretexts, each time lingered in the general room, talking aimlessly with Tetlow--and watching the door.
They pass the time at foolish purposeless games indoors and out; or they wander aimlessly about the earth chattering with similar mental decrepits, much like monkeys adrift in the boughs of a tropical forest.
She would now have found it an intolerable bore to sit with hands idle in her lap and eyes upon vacancy, watching the dim, luminous shadows flit aimlessly by.
Mr. Levice walked along, aimlessly knocking off with his stick the dandelions and camomile in the hedges.
She had come up for some cigars; but when she got into her father's room, she seated herself blindly and looked aimlessly down at her hands.
On April 24th, it was noticed that he was getting thinner and slightly jaundiced; he moved his arms aimlessly in an idiotic manner, and passed his urine involuntarily.
For some time she wandered aimlessly about the city; then bent her steps again toward the Capitol.
The storm continued to rage, so that even Williams failed to prevent them from getting lost, and they wandered about aimlessly for many days before they luckily arrived at Taos, suffering seriously from exhaustion and hunger.
About ten o'clock one night in early summer I was wandering somewhat aimlessly through the South End to see what I might see when I encountered Sheener.
Then he started aimlessly into the woods, crowding past bushes, scraping trees, treading on moss and twig and mouldy stump, his bruised hands swinging, always swinging.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aimlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: about; aimlessly; haphazard; needlessly; vaguely
