How to Use pointless in a Sentence

pointless

adjective

• It would be pointless for us to continue the investigation.
• By 2014, when the case reached the U.S. Court of Appeals, the case was pointless.
  — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 14 June 2021
• There’s a crack and shards on the ground and Angela is left holding the pointless piece.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Is there any truth to this or is this some bizarre, pointless trend?
  — Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
• To be a part of that team, all that other stuff is just pointless.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• Seguin again led the Stars with four shots on goal, but is now pointless in his last six games.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2020
• No broad redactions that make the whole task pointless.
  — al, 15 Mar. 2021
• For a show that upholds the priceless, prices come to feel pointless.
  — Stephen Lurie, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2021
• Hanas has been in a mini-slump, pointless in his last 3 games.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 8 May 2022
• If a phone does not have a long-throw zoom of at least 5x, a Moon mode is largely pointless.
  — WIRED, 19 Mar. 2023
• But then, pointless betrayal is par for the course for these two.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
• Before moving to the top line, Seguin had been held pointless in four straight games.
  — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
• The strange appeal of ‘Burgers,’ both the show and the film, is precisely in its mix of the mundane and the pointless (or, to be kinder, the absurd).
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022
• With nowhere to go back to, being aggrieved over the delay seemed pointless.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• The piece was trying to be about my holding him and saying, your life was not pointless.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Oct. 2021
• The point of diplomacy This isn’t to say that diplomacy and face-to-face talks are pointless.
  — Michael Beckley, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2023
• Trending This is the most pointless website on the planet.
  — Cristiano Lima-Strong, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
• But the main thing for the moment is to prevent pointless and damaging cuts.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 29 Oct. 2020
• The war has made those plans pointless, those memories painful.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
• The decision by the person in the video was wrong, repugnant, and pointless.
  — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2022
• Declaring winners or losers at the trade deadline is a pointless task.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
• The change was largely made at the request of sailors, who saw the rule as pointless and irritating.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2024
• True, buying a single share might seem, well, kind of pointless.
  — Dan Weil, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
• Enough self-loathing over the pointless scrolling that robs endless hours, not to mention our self-respect.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• There is also the simple fact that for most games these days, the physical disc is kind of pointless.
  — Britton Peele, Dallas News, 24 Nov. 2020
• If that’s not the case, then the post-credits scene is only an Easter egg, and a pretty pointless one, too.
  — Ryan Britt, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
• But the fans have a job, too, because if there weren’t any viewers the whole exercise would be pointless.
  — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2022
• Arguing that Cincinnati was the center of the 1970 sports world is pointless.
  — Mark Schmetzer, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2020
• Racing away from light pollution on the night of the full moon is completely pointless because a dark sky will be impossible to find.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• But Alignment is pointless without vision and guidance.
  — Dr. Marcus Krug, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024