195 examples of valueless in sentences

There was so much to say that words seemed suddenly valueless; there was so little to say that they were unnecessary.

How valueless the most valuable of these trifles must have been in their eyes I had begun to suspect from what I saw, and was afterwards made fully aware.

Subsequently this method of observation became valueless.

Its movements are as the sword-play of an alert, poised, well-knit, strong-wristed fencer with the rapier, in which the skill impresses one more than the force, while without the force the skill would be valueless, even hurtful, to its possessor.

Age and experience are worse than valueless if they do not teach a man to think better of his kind; and the history of the period which we have been considering teaches no lesson more forcibly than this, that the great majority of educated men, and especially of our leading statesmen, are actuated by honest and patriotic motives.

The last phrase was a significant reference to the fact that Agadir, though valueless for commercial purposes, might be invaluable to any Power which desired to molest the South Atlantic trade routes.

Mochuda knew what caused the noise and he told the workmen who had played this mischievous trick that they should be scattered throughout the different provinces of Ireland, that they should be always worthless and unprofitable, that the mill they were engaged on should never be finished and that their progeny after them should be valueless race of mischief-makers.

She stole away on her errand without remark, and came back with the gift,but also with that which made it valueless, unmentionable, though it was a costly offering, purchased with the wages of more than a week's labor in the fields.

Before long it comes to be said: that alone is genuine, true, healthy, and valuable which has eternal and universal validity; all else is not only superfluous and valueless but of evil, for it must be unnatural and corrupt.

Quite as valueless and harmful is the idea of ends, with its accompaniments.

The ignorance which does not know facts; the vulgarity which cannot appreciate values; the laziness which will not try to learn either of these things; the sentimentality which, knowing neither, is stirred by the valueless and the untrue; the greed which grabs and exploits.

Why such anxiety to provide the means of paying for labor which is to become valueless?

The simple answer to all this rhetoric appears to be that, while it might be valid as an indictment of the competitive system as a whole, it is valueless when directed against a part of that system only.

An advantage of the willow is that it enables the farmer to derive a profit from land that would otherwise be comparatively valueless.

The cutting of the tapes made the tying and sewing tests quite valueless.

The only published accounts are those made by Zoellner, and in the absence of notes made at the time, all descriptions of phenomena given now by the other persons present would be valueless, except as indicating the impression made upon them at the time by the occurrences.

He said that many persons in Germany had demanded his opinion, but that he had refused it because he regarded his subjective impression, without objective proofs, as scientifically valueless.

It was allowed, forty years later, to pass a law that no corporation should make beer, and the brewery became valueless.

Twenty years later it took away that right, thereby, as claimed, making the railroad property valueless; the railroad had no remedy.

In addition, Washington was a partner in several great land speculations,the Ohio Company, the Walpole Grant, the Mississippi Company, the Military Company of Adventures, and the Dismal Swamp Company; but all these ventures except the last collapsed at the beginning of the Revolution and proved valueless.

"A woman's oath, when it is her last resource, is quite valueless.

Not Diego; for his testimony would be valueless.

"Honours, procured as mine have been, are valueless, and I would rather be without them.

It is pretty safe to say that nineteen-twentieths of the coca seen in this market within the past two years must be almost inert and valueless, yet all is sold and used, and its reputation as a therapeutic agent is pretty well kept up.

Nor are his criticisms by any means valueless.

195 examples of  valueless  in sentences