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Example sentences for "needless"

Lexicographically close words:
needled; needlelike; needlepoint; needler; needles; needlesse; needlessly; needlessness; needlewoman; needlewomen
  1. When news of this act, with its requirement of needless and tedious delay, reached the Kentucky convention, it adjourned for good, with much chagrin.

  2. It is needless to enumerate these attempts, all of no value, and generally destroyed afterwards.

  3. It is needless to say what a relief we experienced when we heard that the enemy was falling back--ever so slightly.

  4. The journal is long and minute in detail, and affords me a very clear retrospect of my life in those years; but it will be needless to trouble the reader with quotations from it.

  5. It does not please me that Fra Niccolo should have needless errands to the Palazzo.

  6. The only thing he could regret was his needless dread; if, indeed, the dread had not been worth suffering for the sake of this sudden rapture.

  7. It is needless to remind readers that Claire was not older than Mary by so much as Mr. Kegan Paul repeatedly asserts in the very book, which affords evidence that they were nearly of the same age.

  8. It is certain therefore that the letter, in which Godwin warned his young friend against the inconveniences of financial extravagance, was no untimely intrusion of needless advice.

  9. Byron having left England for ever long before Shelley entered the house, it is needless to say that the poets never exchanged words under its roof.

  10. It is almost needless to say there was no printing-press at 23 Chapel Street, and that Shelley was not a printer in the sense indicated by the imprint.

  11. It is needless to say the whole story is referable to delusion or falsehood.

  12. It is needless to say that these 'several interviews' were unsatisfactory to Mr. Syle.

  13. There has been much vain and wholly needless conjecture, as to the considerations and the individuals that determined Shelley to marry Mary Godwin.

  14. Peredur, it is needless to say, is the Welsh equivalent of Perceval, Gawain's successor and supplanter in the rĂ´le of Grail hero.

  15. From the Jews the custom spread to the Christian Church, where it still flourishes, its true origin, it is needless to say, being wholly unsuspected.

  16. But there are so many proofs, that those two orders of representative were long separate, that it is needless to insist on them.

  17. It is almost needless to add, that he was condemned, notwithstanding his defence; and that he was deprived of his office.

  18. In short, the proofs of this kind seem so palpable and evident, that it is almost needless to collect them.

  19. But it is needless to reason any further concerning a form of government, which is never likely to have place in Great Britain, and which seems not to be the aim of any party amongst us.

  20. It is needless to say that this impartially conducted report was strongly condemnatory of this burdensome pest.

  21. It is needless to say that it takes sharp eyes to discover their exact position.

  22. Needless to say, she scattered information about the rooms, and the rules governing them, wherever any one would listen.

  23. But it is needless to multiply examples; the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

  24. Jack, needless to say, disdained the groom's good offices, and set forth confident of being able to master any horse by the sheer force of his manhood.

  25. The fear of the bill--the fear of Uncle Bernard's displeasure, loomed so largely before her eyes, that she dared not indulge her longing for needless fineries.

  26. Ruth to herself; referring, needless to say, not to Victor, but to the innocent Margot herself.

  27. But as there are so many Books extant about Thorough Bass, which give a full Account of this, it will be needless to say any more about it, only to mention it as an Error, among other Errors.

  28. This is so well known to be an Error, by all Men of Science, and by all Navigators, that it is needless to say much about it, only just to relate the Truth, that those who are mistaken in their Way may be set in the right Road.

  29. Needless to say, the petition was not granted.

  30. In an iconoclastic age it were needless cruelty to rob the poor Nicaraguan of the only bit of heroic history he possesses.

  31. If she were none the wiser, she would be none the poorer; and he ought to be willing to deny himself her sympathy for the sake of sparing her needless pain.

  32. He spoke with heat at being forced to make what he thought a needless explanation.

  33. Needless to say, Mr. Richard Carvel never intended them for publication.

  34. Needless to say, she flew in the face of Dr.

  35. Needless to say, I hailed the happy inspiration that sent her to me.

  36. Needless to say, the lady in question never again sat by herself in the drawing-room.

  37. They could not understand this at all, so they went to the spot where the disappearance took place, but, needless to say, could find nobody after the most careful search.

  38. Needless to say, the story was hushed up, and we were sharply spoken to, and warned not to mention the occurrence again.

  39. And the presence of ill-governed cities means the needless and deadly pollution of water that never was meant for a sewer.

  40. The presence of a construction gang generally means the needless extermination of every animal in the neighbourhood.

  41. The presence of mills means the needless absence of fish.

  42. Needless to say that the greater part of the cargo of the Halbrane was left in our cavern, fully protected from the weather, at the disposal of any shipwrecked people who might chance to be thrown on the coast of Halbrane Land.

  43. At this moment, I perceived him standing on a narrow projection; needless to specify the direction in which his eyes were turned.

  44. Needless to say, Captain Len Guy, upon hearing the cry of the look-out man, had tumbled up from his cabin: and eagerly examined this land at ten or twelve miles distance.

  45. Needless to say, we had set up a camp on the plateau of which I have spoken, not far from the Halbrane.

  46. Needless to add that in that latitude and in the month of January there was no darkness.

  47. So, as the two parties filled the compartment, we were not troubled with any selfish smoker, and, as we were all English, with no needless exclusion of the views by lowering the blinds.

  48. It is needless to explain the causes of this difference; it would be to tell the tremendous history of two souls.

  49. It is needless because there is a more immediate explanation of the case: the gardener and I, if not equal in agreement, were at least equal in difference.

  50. Here follow a series of statements which it is needless to repeat, as they do not concern La Salle.

  51. It is needless to add that the gentlemanly personage was furnished accommodations in the Irving Block, and the mail was turned over to the Provost-marshal General.

  52. It is needless to add, the "additional reinforcements" compelled us to "surrender" and take down the flag.

  53. This generosity, needless to say, was too altruistic for Constance to fully appreciate its beauties.

  54. Needless to say, Kenyon knew nothing of these benevolent intentions on the part of his friend.

  55. It is needless to say that the "last scene of all" was invested with all the attributes of grotesque terror the wayward popular imagination could invent.

  56. Needless to say that the sacred fire has vanished with the Druids, but the Halloween customs which still survive may be traced back to a hoar antiquity.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "needless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baseless; dispensable; excess; expletive; extraneous; gratuitous; needless; nonessential; prolix; redundant; spare; supererogatory; superfluous; unessential; unnecessary; unneeded; verbose