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Example sentences for "quite useless"

  • He was shot through the head as he was carrying poor Cruikshank away from the village; and the worst of it is, that, in the opinion of many of us, this sortie was a quite useless waste of life.

  • We have taken over the Fort and use it as an Arsenal, for which purpose it serves sufficiently well, though it would be quite useless as a Fortification against any enemy who possessed guns of any kind.

  • In other respects the fluctuations often strike us as quite useless or even as injurious.

  • It does not contribute to the harvest, and is quite useless.

  • Raciborsky, who has lately given a full and very accurate description of this anomaly, lays great stress upon the fact that it is quite useless.

  • She was almost ready to cry, as she answered: "I know you do not care how your orders vex and distress other people, and that it is quite useless for me to ask a favour of you.

  • It will be quite useless to go back--to try and recall what you have said.

  • Berndt gives me up for lost," replied Max, "so it is quite useless for me to take his physic.

  • I do not see Miss Hastings," she said at last, "and it is quite useless going to the aviary without her.

  • I do not like Miss Rocheford," she said at length; "it would be quite useless to pretend that I do.

  • After a time, however, these have proved to be quite useless, or at most of but very slight value.

  • There was not a prince in Rome who would not be glad to make such a match for his daughter, "It is quite useless, mother," said Sabina.

  • But of course, if you will be so kind as to see whether the horses need anything, it is quite useless for me to go myself.

  • It would be quite useless to search the rooms for Sabina.

  • To follow the spoor of the migratory springboks with the hope of recovering their flock would be quite useless.

  • Quarters of venison they had frequently stolen, and they had eaten up the leathern part of Swartboy's saddle, and rendered it quite useless for a while.

  • But I am not going to argue about the matter, for it is quite useless.

  • It would be the last time that anything would pass his lips, she thought, and it might be quite useless to give it to him, but it must be ready.

  • Lamberti must have guessed already that all friendship was at an end, and it would consequently be quite useless to tell him so.

  • Starkowski interposed: "It is quite useless to reason with you on these points, or to expect you to retract anything of the past.

  • He felt morally certain that it would be quite useless to petition the Emperor, not that he doubted that the peasants really had been wronged in the suit.

  • Let me go," he said; "it is quite useless to waste a word about him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain birds; great fame; hold them; many peoples; material interests; mile from; public scandal; quite difficult; quite easy; quite gone; quite happy; quite independent; quite independently; quite near; quite obvious; quite otherwise; quite plain; quite the; quite unable; quite unknown; quite variable; quite wrong; separate government; somewhat compressed; special study; sweet mother