How to Use harmless in a Sentence

harmless

adjective

• It was just a harmless joke.
• We're just having a bit of harmless fun.
• His ideas seem harmless enough.
• Colon polyps are mostly a harmless clump of cells that form the lining of the colon.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2021
• Most are harmless, but some can put your health at risk.
  — Katie Camero, SELF, 25 July 2024
• Shane is rightly off-put by the man, who seems harmless.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• Then a pair of harmless singles in the fourth and fifth were the only knocks recorded against him all day.
  — Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2023
• Most of those are harmless, but there are a few types that swimmers should be on the lookout for.
  — Adam Benson The Sun News (myrtle Beach, al, 9 July 2023
• At the time, the NIH said the compound was thought to be harmless to humans, animals and plants.
  — Justin Gamble, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
• As for all the papers in the first picture, most of them seem pretty harmless.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2021
• Our list of epic ideas includes a range of stunts from harmless and goofy to downright saucy.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
• Though most forms of E. coli are harmless, some strains can make humans sick.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 1 Aug. 2024
• Your life might be on the line, whereas our bullies were harmless.
  — Time, 13 Jan. 2023
• This is not the first time people have been killed by what were supposed to be harmless guns on a movie set.
  — Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
• The new vaccine, called Arexvy, contains a harmless version of a protein found on the outside of the virus.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
• Most blooms—even the harmless ones—look and smell funky (Krimsky describes the odor as a musty decay).
  — Julia Ries, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2024
• The bet is that new, clean stuff will make the old, dirty stuff harmless or irrelevant.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
• Most are harmless ripoffs—young women trying to cash in on the Zeitgeist.
  — Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
• Hundreds of space rocks hit Earth every year, and most are harmless.
  — Corinne Purtill, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2023
• As the bears run away, wildlife officers shout at them and fire harmless powder balls at them, the video shows.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 23 May 2024
• Many are harmless and, in many cases, can even be helpful.
  — Alex Yampolsky, Verywell Health, 17 July 2024
• The slow-moving sharks, which like to dwell near the sea floor in warm, shallow waters, are – for the most part – harmless to humans.
  — Nell Lewis; Video By Angus Watson, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• But the way that Butler comes off as more harmless than the real Elvis ties into the key problem with the film’s first half.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 May 2022
• Schools were held harmless during the current school year.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2021
• This will be the fourth year that schools have either been held harmless or not received a letter grade.
  — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2022
• The disease is harmless to humans but fatal for pigs, which can lead to a loss in pork exports.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2021
• The airspace was reopened once the object was found to be harmless, said Daniel Voda, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The powder was later found to be harmless, police said.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• The apps containing the malware were designed to look harmless.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2024
• Alignment data attempts to balance being helpful, truthful and harmless.
  — Olga Megorskaya, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024