How to Use meaningless in a Sentence

meaningless

adjective
  • He felt that his work was meaningless.
  • The movie was filled with meaningless violence.
  • All of that stuff is meaningless -- to me, at least.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • These games aren’t meaningless for them — not by a long shot.
    — Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Much of what’s in the agreement is so vague as to be meaningless.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • This is all meaningless and meant to distract you from the task at hand.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The truth is that what happened on the pitch was meaningless for most.
    — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Yes, that’s a somewhat meaningless place to be at this time of year.
    — Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026
  • The election is six months off, so these polls are meaningless.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 2 May 2020
  • Now that seems rather meaningless.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • But that doesn’t mean the awards are meaningless to the players.
    — Michael Ordoña, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
  • But that doesn't mean that the straw poll is meaningless either.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 July 2021
  • Oplinger knows all those stats are meaningless on the practice field.
    — Atreya Verma, azcentral, 17 June 2018
  • Oh and in the first couple of episodes, there are deaths, big deaths, big meaningless deaths.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 June 2026
  • As is always the case, the final score is meaningless this time of year.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Worse, the word is so vague and generic as to be nearly meaningless.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
  • And those tests have been so scripted as to be almost meaningless.
    — William Hartung, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Never is a long time, and words can be meaningless, as the saying goes.
    — Jim Reineking, USA Today, 21 July 2025
  • Of course, such small efforts may appear meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
    — Bypeter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 11 July 2024
  • If a right does not include the right to enforce that right, then the right is meaningless.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Monken was not about to use any of his bread-and-butter looks in a meaningless contest.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The Browns may not have playoff hopes, but those glimpses are not meaningless.
    — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
  • But this also isn’t a meaningless stretch of games for a team as young as the Sabres.
    — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • And as months pass, those who buy in travel so far from the truth that facts become meaningless.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 July 2021
  • The way one's culture can be stolen and made monstrous, made meaningless.
    — Jason Parham, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The way one’s culture can be stolen and made monstrous, made meaningless.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The next frontier for meaningless records?
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In the short term, the change of interpreters proved meaningless.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2024
  • The color of one’s skin, by all accounts, now meaningless.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • All the gifts in the world would be meaningless without the sentiment to back them up.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2022

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