How to use "pointless" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "pointless" in popular movie and book plots

  • During a confrontation with their captors, Worf slays Weyoun, though this is ultimately pointless as another clone would be sent in.  - Strange Bedfellows (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
  • Their apparently pointless destruction leads to a retaliatory alien quarantine of the human race to a few nearby star systems.  - The World Jones Made
  • Wesley enters and decides that Emma’s project is pointless and that she ought to be focusing on more important things.  - Curse of the Starving Class
  • After Judge Cool discusses the situation, everyone agrees that it was a pointless struggle, and old relationships are invigorated once again.  - The Grass Harp
  • Octavia, humiliated at being used by Pompey and heartbroken over her pointless divorce, says she wants him dead.  - The Stolen Eagle
  • The book begins at the end of space and time, when the last descendants of humanity face an infinite but pointless existence.  - Manifold: Time
  • To teach them how to find their mask powers, the Turaga puts them through a test in which they perform seemingly pointless tasks.  - Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui
  • X stays behind, trying to find a more peaceful solution to what he views as another pointless conflict.  - Mega Man X7
  • Elphaba reminds herself that it's pointless to wish for something to happen between them ("I'm Not that Girl").  - Wicked (musical)
  • Rather than stay to hear another pointless story, the narrator excuses himself and leaves.  - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
  • Stan is equally dismayed, wondering why anyone would care about such a pointless exercise.  - Douche and Turd
  • Spock advises against pointless actions that could endanger them further.  - The Galileo Seven
  • Karel also sees the compulsory English language lessons as a pointless waste of his time.  - Dark Blue World
  • The pair discuss what they have done, and agree that it has all been pointless because nothing has changed in them.  - Baise-moi
  • A message, carried by pointless albatross, arrives for Lord Vetinari from the Agatean Empire.  - The Last Hero
  • Though Dionne has a long-term relationship with popular student Murray, Cher claims that this is a pointless endeavor on Dionne's part.  - Clueless (film)

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