How to Use worthless in a Sentence

worthless

adjective

• The boots may be nice, but they're worthless if they don't fit you.
• She's depressed and believes that she's worthless.
• If the Tour of Flanders were in June, the bike race might be worthless to botanists.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
• Miss the date, and that card becomes worthless to the customer.
  — Jordyn Holman, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2020
• The bottom line was that my $25 gift card was worthless.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2020
• What’s fun and not destined to be worthless when you’re done with it?
  — David Netto, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2020
• But without a plan to back it up, his pledge may prove worthless.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 19 Aug. 2021
• The land turned out to be worthless as an investment, too.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022
• But none of that is what makes this law truly worthless.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 27 Apr. 2021
• Which is yet more of a reminder of what a worthless number GDP is.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• He was stung by hornets and fell into the mud on what turned out to be worthless land.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 24 Dec. 2020
• The Lions did win the first matchup, which could lead you to believe Fields and the Bears’ secondary is worthless in this matchup.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
• Looking Ahead None of this is to say that AI in healthcare is worthless.
  — Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• Yes, but only at the point that the entire system is worthless.
  — Jessica Royassistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• So, Bill Goldman gave us the lesson that revenge is a worthless quest.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2024
• But what if the craft in question is worthless and about to go extinct, along with most other things?
  — Michael Robbins, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
• Those rights would be all but worthless in a Games without athletes.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2021
• By this point, the Sudanese pound had become worthless as shops lay smashed and looted.
  — Jack Jeffery and Noha Elhennawy, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023
• These conclusions are based on analyses that are so flawed as to be close to worthless.
  — Byron R. Johnson and Jeff Levin, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• Tests and vaccines will be worthless if the public can’t or simply doesn’t trust them.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2020
• Shooters don’t have as many training aids, and some are worthless.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 July 2024
• But based on the season to date, the blowout win over the Pacers will prove worthless unless what Lillard says turns out to be true.
  — oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2021
• There are lots of things wrong about February, which after the Super Bowl is the most worthless of months.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022
• However, most of these firms were shown later to be next to worthless.
  — Joel Litman, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• And if a retail store closes or goes bankrupt, a gift card could be worthless.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023
• By then, the promise of 40 Acres and a Mule had long faded, and the land title Jackson received was worthless.
  — Essence, 18 June 2024
• Stockholders take on the risk that a company may fail and that their shares may be worthless.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 24 Sep. 2020
• And so comes the question: Who pays for killing a man society views as worthless by virtue of his disease?
  — Tod Goldberg, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2020
• At one point, labs were backed up two weeks, rendering the results worthless.
  — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
• Promotional penny-stock newsletters began touting that the company and the nearly worthless Neuro-Hitech shares that the mysterious Mr. Collins had acquired for $9,000 a few months prior were sizzling hot.
  — Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024