How to Use senseless in a Sentence

senseless

adjective

• Don't be such a senseless idiot!
• Adding to the senseless crime is the fact the eagle wasn’t alone in the nest when it was shot.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
• None of the Falcone movies are very good, but this is the most senseless.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
• This was senseless the first time around and senseless again.
  — Carolyn Burt, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
• The evil of one man has produced these senseless deaths.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2021
• Those who knew Kahle called her death a senseless tragedy.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
• The senseless charnel houses of Verdun and the Somme found their match in Bakhmut.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• But in the long shadow of senseless acts, each found a soul mate who could grasp what the other had been through.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
• Kim Boykin: These deaths are so senseless and so preventable.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2024
• For her to be killed in such a senseless way is unfathomable.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
• Boy George could go rabid and beat us senseless, right?
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2023
• It’s our nature to make sense of something like this that is senseless.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 24 Oct. 2021
• The news Monday that she had been killed at work was senseless, Raiola said.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• This is a difficult case, largely due to the senseless nature of the act.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2020
• Crystal Smith said her son’s death was senseless, like so many are.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 18 Dec. 2020
• The case captivated the public, which was shocked by the senseless nature of the crime.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
• And most senseless of all, the victims of gun violence.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
• Her life was taken from her at the young age of 23 in a senseless cowardly act .
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 17 Jan. 2023
• This was a tragic and senseless murder and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the victim.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2023
• Our hearts go out to the victims, families, and friends involved in the senseless tragedy.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• Our Amber & Justin have been taken from us in such a senseless act.
  — Helena Oliviero, ajc, 20 Nov. 2021
• How can we not all be filled with outrage over the senseless killing and shooting of young children?
  — Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
• Batt’s discomfort with the senseless killing of the dog was evident to others at the scene.
  — Ali Winston, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2023
• Four other people died in the senseless mayhem of that day.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• The commuter, who spent his time in a senseless, ceaseless to-and-fro between office and home, was a victim of the age.
  — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
• She was taken from us because of a senseless act in a mass shooting.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 1 June 2022
• No pesky Washington States to hammer you senseless in the cold.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• But justice might offer them a sense of closure to a senseless crime.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• But this is not the sort of series that will leave evil unpunished or afflict the good with senseless tragedy.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
• On Facebook, friends described him as a sweet soul taken in a senseless act.
  — Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024