How to Use meaningless in a Sentence

meaningless

adjective

• He felt that his work was meaningless.
• The movie was filled with meaningless violence.
• All the gifts in the world would be meaningless without the sentiment to back them up.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2022
• As is always the case, the final score is meaningless this time of year.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2022
• The days of meaningless wait times for anything are gone.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• In the short term, the change of interpreters proved meaningless.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2024
• Their game against the Titans will be far from meaningless to most of the players who play.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• But there were too many meaningless games around the NFL this weekend.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
• The Browns may not have playoff hopes, but those glimpses are not meaningless.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
• Worse, the word is so vague and generic as to be nearly meaningless.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• Monken was not about to use any of his bread-and-butter looks in a meaningless contest.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023
• Of course, such small efforts may appear meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
  — Bypeter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 11 July 2024
• The money is meaningless—but the changes could be profound.
  — Matt Burgess, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
• His third and fourth points were the product of a meaningless layup as the final seconds ticked off.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 27 May 2024
• The Texas Rangers may be well out of playoff contention, but don’t tell them that these games are meaningless.
  — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2021
• Deciding on a winner based on the work is meaningless, because 99% of the time the winning work won’t even see the light of day.
  — Avi Dan, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Some say the rest of these September games are meaningless.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• At the end of this hard-fought and meaningless struggle nothing was resolved, but there was grave loss on all sides.
  — Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
• Kudos to ownership for a move that is meaningless on the field but a livesaving one off of it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2022
• Stay tuned for the next eye-popping and meaningless sequel.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
• After the school shooting in Texas, this all seemed rather meaningless.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• The kind of play that stirs a July crowd braving tough conditions, but is meaningless in the grand scheme.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024
• Randle wasn’t happy with Allen for the strong contest on a meaningless shot.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• The stakes for Day 3 of the NFL draft typically don't compare to the first two nights of the event, but the final four rounds are hardly meaningless.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
• Trump would have had the country believe that Jan. 6 was meaningless!
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 June 2024
• The Texans won a meaningless game late in the year versus Indianapolis, which hurt their draft choice and moved up the Colts in the order.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Apr. 2023
• It’s an aging code, and a euphemism, meaningless to those who don’t already get it.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
• The county’s data, now meaningless, couldn’t be used against it.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 Oct. 2021
• When main characters have enough plot armor to survive massive falls, swords to the gut and the might of every Dark Wizard thrown at them, stakes become meaningless.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
• The implications of this model echo throughout the Bible and beyond: The day of rest is meaningless without the preceding six days of melakhah to sanctify it.
  — Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024