How to Use meaningless in a Sentence

meaningless

adjective
  • He felt that his work was meaningless.
  • The movie was filled with meaningless violence.
  • The last day of the season was, in that sense, meaningless.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 22 May 2021
  • This is all meaningless and meant to distract you from the task at hand.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2021
  • But this also isn’t a meaningless stretch of games for a team as young as the Sabres.
    — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • If a right does not include the right to enforce that right, then the right is meaningless.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • But that doesn't mean that the straw poll is meaningless either.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 July 2021
  • 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
  • And that type of mojo isn’t meaningless at times like these.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2021
  • D’Angelo is still in a funk about a meaningless scrimmage the day before.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The election is six months off, so these polls are meaningless.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 2 May 2020
  • 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
  • These were not the actions of a man who considered the game meaningless.
    — Arpon Basu, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The problem, reporters for Bloomberg Green found, was that many of these moves were meaningless.
    — New York Times, 11 July 2021
  • And as months pass, those who buy in travel so far from the truth that facts become meaningless.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 July 2021
  • The questions can still be rendered meaningless with a strong finish to the season by the Stars.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 2 May 2021
  • 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
  • That’s the point at which visitors get past the threshold of meaningless small talk.
    — Kevin Randall, Wired, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Early draft grades are meaningless, and the Browns still have to find a quarterback and cash in on that extra first-rounder, regardless of whether those two end up being tied together.
    — Zac Jackson, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Of course, announcements are meaningless without plans — and the FDA is the only agency to announce a plan that lays out a three-year timeline and alternative testing strategies.
    — Rachel Fobar, Vox, 14 May 2025

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