228 examples of aimless in sentences

One evening, after a busy day among his piece-goods, he had walked afield with Heywood, and back by an aimless circuit through the twilight.

So, having laid aside her furs and satisfied herself, by a seemingly aimless but in fact exacting survey, that the abominable Sturm was not skulking anywhere in the shadows, Sofia established herself on a lounge that faced the fireplace, while Karslake stood before the fire, looking down with an expectant smile of which she was but half aware.

He hung about the house, aimless, sick at heart, with hope sinking ever lower within him like a fire dying for lack of replenishment.

Recovering himself by an effort, he walked slowly away, and, after prowling about for some time in an aimless fashion, made his way back to Mrs. Phipps's house.

It is neither agreeable nor necessary to follow the vicissitudes of this aimless struggle.

"The introductory poems are meant to represent a stage of absorption in the beauty and complexity of the natural world, during which the poet, conscious of his own high, incommunicable gift, by which he sees into the life of things, is conscious of an aimless fever and restlessness which is forever turning delight into weariness." [Footnote 1: Blanco Garcia, op.

Why not try walks?" "Abominable boreslonely, aimless" "Well, perhaps you're right.

For one thing, I observed that the little busy bee is not busy all the while; that he does a great amount of aimless, idle snuffing and tasting of all sorts of things besides flowers; especially he indulges in a running accompaniment of gymnastics among the grass-stalks, which cannot possibly have anything to do with honey.

I do not remember any picture of the war more curious, and, as it were, uncanny than the first sight of Zossen as our motor came lurching down the muddy road from Berlinthat huge, forgotten eddy, that slough of idle, aimless human beings against the gray March sky, milling slowly round and round in the mud.

We had gone but a few steps when we observed an aimless-looking individual in fez and civilian clothes following us.

Then it dropped and became aimless and erratic, puffing gently first from one quarter and then another.

She was in a mood of aimless discontent and unrest, tired of her engagement to Millard Binch, disappointed with Moffatt, half-ashamed of being seen with him, and yet not sorry to have it known that she was independent enough to choose her companions without regard to the Apex verdict.

It is either disunion and civil war or it is mere angry, idle, aimless disturbance of public peace and tranquillity.

Since that time his search had been mostly of an aimless character, which, as we have already stated, could be productive of no definite results.

All through Italy at this time there was the restless throbbing and pulsating, the aimless outreach of the popular heart, which marks the decline of one cycle of religious faith and calls for some great awakening and renewal.

There is always latent in civilized society a certain amount of what may be called Sir Philip Sidney genius, which will seem elegant and listless and aimless enough until the congenial chance appears.

To prove the fact would merely satisfy sheer aimless, fruitless curiosity; and it is a source of some reasonable satisfaction to know that the very people who would be most interested in the perusal of a biography of Shakespeare made up of the relation of such facts are they who have least right to know anything about him.

They look and act so aimless, and they are going somewhere all the time.

Hopeless, almost aimless now, he would come, and why he came he scarcely knew.

Drift apart, aimless crowd.

He could not, for one thing, quite figure out the Woman, nor reconcile himself to her constant presence and aimless wanderings about the place.

The rest stayed at home, and fell into an idle, aimless, often disreputable, fashion of existence.

The doll wakes, turns into a Japanese baby something more valuable than money could buya baby with a shaven head and aimless legs.

Avarice is a calculating passion; but here were aimless and exhausting horrors, like those which swarm in the drunkard's corrupted brain.

She had never seen anything like them; and yet they were obviously boys and girls, and in numbers pretty equally divided, What beat her was that they neither ran about nor played at any game, but walked to and froto and froas though pacing through some form of drill; and yet again they could not be drilling, for their motions were almost inert and quite aimless.

228 examples of  aimless  in sentences