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
  • The next 18 months were the darkest of his life, as balls and strikes seemed pointless at times.
    — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 18 June 2017
  • 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
  • That does not mean talks would be pointless, Bell adds.
    — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2018
  • That doesn’t mean talks – whether direct, face-to-face, or on the phone – are pointless.
    — Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 19 May 2025
  • 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
  • And to get all uptight about what the kids are doing is pointless.
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • For a show that upholds the priceless, prices come to feel pointless.
    — Stephen Lurie, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2021
  • That doesn’t make the addition of fiber pointless, of course.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 12 July 2019
  • 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 there is no air in space, so this design is pointless.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2017
  • But then, pointless betrayal is par for the course for these two.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
  • Stats are tracked and box scores are kept, but those numbers are pointless.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2025
  • That was pointless, it was done, the decision was made.
    — SI.com, 9 June 2018
  • 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
  • The pair fight, with both losing their lives in pointless bloodshed.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • 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 that doesn't mean that getting it later in your life is pointless.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 9 Oct. 2018
  • But the main thing for the moment is to prevent pointless and damaging cuts.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 29 Oct. 2020
  • At the bottom, Greece got the unwanted record of being the only pointless team in the top two divisions of the Nations League.
    — Neel Shelat, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • In her opening statement, defense lawyer Teny Geragos sounded fully resigned to any charm offensive being pointless.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025

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