How to Use aimless in a Sentence

aimless

adjective
  • How often the aisles, back then, steered my aimless mind.
    Jason Guriel, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
  • There are more ways to getting that six-pack than just an aimless amount of situps.
    Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The great world spins; tides rise and fall; aimless 20-somethings flirt with danger.
    Hamilton Cain, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • Those humans, a trio of wealthy, aimless 20-somethings, tend to regard Tica the dog with a range of pity and neglect.
    Vulture, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Though the film might feel aimless at times, it’s buoyed by scenes in which the musicians come together to rap and sing.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • On-premise, there is still a lot of aimless wandering and guessing.
    Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Over the last two decades, the United States has waged destructive, costly and aimless wars on the other side of the planet.
    The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 30 Jan. 2024
  • For the most part, the tenacious hairdresser shrugs off AA and settles on leading an aimless life.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Karen Gillan plays Louise, an aimless and depressed musician in her 20s struggling to get past a painful breakup.
    Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But other scenes in the footage have a more aimless, roving quality.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Not until four years later does their mixtape find her again, alone and aimless.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 23 June 2022
  • To replace our boring, aimless, frustrating world with a new one made just for us.
    Sam Anderson, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The truth is that Young has stuck his neck out before, and sometimes his missions have wound up feeling quixotic and aimless.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The band had been somewhat aimless since the 1967 death of manager Brian Epstein.
    David Bauder, ajc, 24 Nov. 2021
  • But some protein genes can also arise from stretches of the genome that once encoded aimless strands of RNA instead.
    Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 5 Jan. 2023
  • For Reichardt, Williams has played everyone from an aimless drifter to a pioneer on the Oregon Trail.
    Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Friendship was still intense and silly, but a little less aimless.
    Daisy Jones, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Still, even outside of those few crucial pages, the plot is infused with driving, aimless and otherwise.
    Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Anybody this aimless and callow is destined for a comeuppance, of course.
    Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • Bratton, 43, spent most of the next decade homeless and largely aimless before joining the Marines in a desperate bid at finding self-worth.
    Stuart Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The large creatures go weeks, even months, without eating in their aimless foraging.
    Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The world looks awfully mutable, especially from the vantage of the aimless and rich.
    Vulture, 1 Aug. 2023
  • After nearly three minutes of yelling and aimless arguments, Clenney tells Obumseli to leave the house.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Raiff wrote, produced, directed and stars in the film, about an aimless 23-year-old college grad named Andrew trying to figure out his life and career.
    David Bloom, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • For people who stuck it out through the increasingly miserable and aimless post-Phillips years and want some kind of apology for how badly the show went awry?
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2021
  • His sale could even be required as part of it, to balance the books and comply with financial fair play after years of seemingly aimless spending.
    James Nalton, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • Not a hard sell, no? Pisces Rising Roll out the picnic blankets and put together those playlists meant for aimless strolls, because this May is set to be a walk in the park—literally.
    Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Apr. 2024
  • But the inconvenient truth is that these very factors can harm our productivity and leave us aimless and adrift.
    Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The three comedians play loose versions of themselves, starring as three aimless best friends who work at a local sporting goods store.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2023
  • At times throughout his teenage years, Inglewood High student Calliel Coleman’s life slowed to an aimless crawl.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2023

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