How to Use aimless in a Sentence

aimless

adjective

• Rowlands’s character, lovelorn and aimless, is what’s left over when wild romance inevitably fails.
  — Emma Madden, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
• How often the aisles, back then, steered my aimless mind.
  — Jason Guriel, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
• There are more ways to getting that six-pack than just an aimless amount of situps.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
• The great world spins; tides rise and fall; aimless 20-somethings flirt with danger.
  — Hamilton Cain, New York Times, 27 June 2023
• But that's not enough to make up for the tackier, aimless later episodes.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
• Those humans, a trio of wealthy, aimless 20-somethings, tend to regard Tica the dog with a range of pity and neglect.
  — Vulture, 1 Aug. 2023
• Though the film might feel aimless at times, it’s buoyed by scenes in which the musicians come together to rap and sing.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 June 2023
• On-premise, there is still a lot of aimless wandering and guessing.
  — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• Over the last two decades, the United States has waged destructive, costly and aimless wars on the other side of the planet.
  — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 30 Jan. 2024
• In some ways, the season’s sometimes aimless feeling is part of its purpose.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 27 June 2024
• For the most part, the tenacious hairdresser shrugs off AA and settles on leading an aimless life.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• Karen Gillan plays Louise, an aimless and depressed musician in her 20s struggling to get past a painful breakup.
  — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
• But other scenes in the footage have a more aimless, roving quality.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 5 Nov. 2021
• Not until four years later does their mixtape find her again, alone and aimless.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 23 June 2022
• To replace our boring, aimless, frustrating world with a new one made just for us.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• The truth is that Young has stuck his neck out before, and sometimes his missions have wound up feeling quixotic and aimless.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2022
• The band had been somewhat aimless since the 1967 death of manager Brian Epstein.
  — David Bauder, ajc, 24 Nov. 2021
• Here, aimless hack ‘n slashing will still go far, but there’s more nuance to everything.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2024
• But some protein genes can also arise from stretches of the genome that once encoded aimless strands of RNA instead.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 5 Jan. 2023
• For Reichardt, Williams has played everyone from an aimless drifter to a pioneer on the Oregon Trail.
  — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2023
• Friendship was still intense and silly, but a little less aimless.
  — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2023
• Still, even outside of those few crucial pages, the plot is infused with driving, aimless and otherwise.
  — Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2024
• Anybody this aimless and callow is destined for a comeuppance, of course.
  — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Bratton, 43, spent most of the next decade homeless and largely aimless before joining the Marines in a desperate bid at finding self-worth.
  — Stuart Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2022
• The large creatures go weeks, even months, without eating in their aimless foraging.
  — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
• As a second son, Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) has always felt a bit aimless.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 June 2024
• Still, some kids took a few aimless steps, bumping into classmates, desks and cabinets.
  — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2024
• The world looks awfully mutable, especially from the vantage of the aimless and rich.
  — Vulture, 1 Aug. 2023
• Often, the hidden gems come into focus on aimless drives along the coast—golden bars of sand tucked under cliff faces frequented by locals in the know.
  — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2024
• This is a very critical difference because a vision without execution stays a dream, and execution without a vision becomes aimless.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024