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.
  • My fine, fine son, at the top of his game, felt worthless and unloved.
    — cleveland, 29 Dec. 2019
  • But without a plan to back it up, his pledge may prove worthless.
    — John McCormack, National Review, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The bears with their spreadsheets would tell you those chips are worthless.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
  • This pre-match stuff would be worthless if the action wasn't a blast.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2018
  • What’s fun and not destined to be worthless when you’re done with it?
    — David Netto, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2020
  • When the film ran its course after three or four days, the posters were worthless.
    — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 9 July 2019
  • Boas was not surprised to learn that a lot of their findings were worthless.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • After the items were sent, the form of payment was found to be worthless.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Miss the date, and that card becomes worthless to the customer.
    — Jordyn Holman, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The idea, Krebs tells me, is that needle or thread alone is worthless.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Of course, there's a flip side to that, the investors who bought those worthless options.
    — Oliver Renick, CNBC, 18 May 2026
  • Those rights would be all but worthless in a Games without athletes.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Yes, but only at the point that the entire system is worthless.
    — Jessica Royassistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • If the partners lose interest, the stake might be as good as worthless.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • Crypto could change the world and still leave a lot of people with worthless tokens.
    — Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Of course, such heuristics are hardly worthless.
    — John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2025
  • To bow and scrape before this worthless outsider is beneath me.
    — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • Life itself being worthless, all things with it, that feed it, are worthless.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The investments fell through, the classes were worthless, and the steaks weren’t all that good.
    — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 11 July 2017
  • But these glasses are worthless without a mobile phone.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But that doesn’t mean the technology is worthless.
    — Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The incumbents protect the fort until the fort is worthless (cliche cf.
    — Forrester, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • The old coins can be spent through Sunday night but will be worthless in shops on Monday.
    — Bloomberg.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • If the Tour of Flanders were in June, the bike race might be worthless to botanists.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The assurances proved worthless then.
    — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2025

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