The furniture was sitting around uselessly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : It is useless to reason with him. ,a useless person; a useless gadget. From Dictionary.com.
Howard had confessed, so why should she jeopardize her good name uselessly?. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life] Reference
“Help,” I call uselessly. From Wordnik.com. [Fallout] Reference
The night before the massacre, only one Casspir patrolled the squatter camp while five were "uselessly" left in. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
(There, see how annoying it was to read the same phrase uselessly repeated multiple times?. From Wordnik.com. [jr conlin's ink stained banana] Reference
Thierry called uselessly as the. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
"A woman is frank when she does not lie uselessly.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Johnny was still concentratedly, uselessly at work. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Point] Reference
The lock flipped uselessly with a hollowchunk-chunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Fiend] Reference
She was not the sort of woman to risk a scene uselessly. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Yes, Colonel, our small force is uselessly exposed here. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Crossing the Delaware] Reference
They came and went, searching everywhere, but always uselessly. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
They should be taught how wrong it is to destroy life uselessly. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
The pity of it was that Garth had suffered needlessly -- uselessly!. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Secondly, people won't venture to injure or uselessly waste anything. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
But you don't need them, so were I to give you any, they'd lie uselessly about. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
After you so neatly but uselessly saved yourselves from drowning last night, I finished. From Wordnik.com. [The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette] Reference
To ponder afresh would be to cover again uselessly ground that he had gone over a hundred times. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
It was considered that the battery was too valuable as a reserve to sacrifice any of its men uselessly. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
"I've uselessly put you again, miss, to the expense of giving me a tip for wine," the old servant smiled. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
I shoved, and dug, and battered, as uselessly as a rat in a trap, and suddenly knew that was just what I was!. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
I do not approve of General Hunter's course in burning private homes or uselessly destroying private property. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
If a principle could ever be concrete, Raikes was the embodiment of the grasping and the uselessly abstemious. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Every dollar uselessly spent on military mechanisms decreases our total strength and, therefore, our security. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
It must come sooner or later, and I would rather give my life as a ransom for a friend than lay it down uselessly. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
The cord of his gymnasium swung uselessly above his head; he tottered no more along the corridors of the hospital. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
He was perfectly willing to destroy his own mind for a purpose, but he had no intention of destroying it uselessly. From Wordnik.com. [What The Left Hand Was Doing] Reference
I passed an old fort with three very old cast-iron guns of 9-inch bore, lying uselessly on their sides, one labelled. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
Who could stand by and see good candles blowing uselessly in the wind, and one's money going along with the dripping?. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
But after a while, 'why uselessly waste,' he observed, 'human labour, and throw away silks to make things of this sort!'. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
If they were rigid and unyielding, a considerable portion of the heart's force would be uselessly expended against their walls. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Then he wiped his eyes and looked ashamed of himself -- quite uselessly -- for it is a mistake to suppose that tears are unmanly. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
The loose cash which many persons throw away uselessly, and worse, would often form a basis of fortune and independence for life. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
It was a brilliant but disastrous feat; in the space of a few minutes, four hundred of the gallant men were uselessly sacrificed. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
Henderson if he did not think it would be wise to fall back as no assistance was being sent, and men were being uselessly sacrificed. From Wordnik.com. [With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917] Reference
He was declared uselessly sacrificed, and his commanding general and the Government came in for an equal share of popular condemnation. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Compared with asking me to come, and uselessly receive the obeisances of you all, this will be yea even a hundred times more profitable!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
There is more money thrown away uselessly in such places, in the way of expensive printing and lithographs, than managers seem to realize. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
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