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.
• The hand is full of losers, and the queen of spades may worthless for offense.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
• My fine, fine son, at the top of his game, felt worthless and unloved.
  — cleveland, 29 Dec. 2019
• If the Tour of Flanders were in June, the bike race might be worthless to botanists.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
• Our tanks are worthless if the souls who must steer them are made of clay. . .
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• Miss the date, and that card becomes worthless to the customer.
  — Jordyn Holman, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2020
• When the film ran its course after three or four days, the posters were worthless.
  — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 9 July 2019
• 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
• The mixed glass, a whopping 75 percent of the total, is worthless.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• 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
• Boas was not surprised to learn that a lot of their findings were worthless.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• 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
• If any of the three drugs tied to the contingent value right fail to win approval within the next 15 months, the CVR will be worthless.
  — Cristin Flanagan, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• Shooters don’t have as many training aids, and some are worthless.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 21 Aug. 2019
• Shooters don’t have as many training aids, and some are worthless.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 July 2024
• But, there is a downside—the value of stock options can diminish or even become worthless if the stock price drops.
  — Gegham Azatyan, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024