How to Use harmless in a Sentence

harmless

adjective
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  • Most are harmless, but some can put your health at risk.
    — Katie Camero, SELF, 25 July 2024
  • Cicadas are harmless to crops and the vast majority of plants.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2024
  • Another harmless lovesick fan wanting to see a star, the guard thought; there were a couple every week.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • Cicadas are harmless to humans — though some people find the sheer number of insects and their loud mating songs a nuisance.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Potential discomfort: While most warts are harmless and painless, some can be very painful, such as plantar warts.
    — Lacey Muinos, Verywell Health, 3 May 2024
  • Sometimes, seemingly harmless instances of deception may be an early tipoff.
    — Sarah Klein, TIME, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Down on Earth, however, the activity is harmless to humans.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
  • Named after the small dark spots that resemble the seeds on a strawberry’s surface, these marks are harmless but can be bothersome and a real confidence buster.
    — Tira Urquhart, Essence, 23 July 2024
  • Though the aurora borealis is harmless eye candy, some of the particles flung at high speed by the sun towards earth can disrupt electronics on earth and in orbit.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • Burgess generally thinks the trend is harmless, as long as the programs don’t romanticize or sensationalize the killers.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 July 2024
  • The high doses of vitamins and minerals delivered through IV drips may not be entirely harmless.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 1 May 2024
  • Your immune system overreacts to these harmless substances and releases chemicals called histamines.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 3 May 2024
  • Most, like mild hormonal fluctuations and early pregnancy, are usually harmless.
    — Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 16 July 2024
  • Shane is rightly off-put by the man, who seems harmless.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Then a pair of harmless singles in the fourth and fifth were the only knocks recorded against him all day.
    — Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2023
  • Most of those are harmless, but there are a few types that swimmers should be on the lookout for.
    — Adam Benson The Sun News (myrtle Beach, al, 9 July 2023
  • At the time, the NIH said the compound was thought to be harmless to humans, animals and plants.
    — Justin Gamble, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Our list of epic ideas includes a range of stunts from harmless and goofy to downright saucy.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Your life might be on the line, whereas our bullies were harmless.
    — Time, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The new vaccine, called Arexvy, contains a harmless version of a protein found on the outside of the virus.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
  • The bet is that new, clean stuff will make the old, dirty stuff harmless or irrelevant.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Most are harmless ripoffs—young women trying to cash in on the Zeitgeist.
    — Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Hundreds of space rocks hit Earth every year, and most are harmless.
    — Corinne Purtill, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • As the bears run away, wildlife officers shout at them and fire harmless powder balls at them, the video shows.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 23 May 2024
  • The airspace was reopened once the object was found to be harmless, said Daniel Voda, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The powder was later found to be harmless, police said.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Many of them carry much more harmless cargo such as corn syrup.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 27 June 2024
  • Urine color may not tell the whole story, and a change in color can have a harmless culprit such as food dye.
    — Kathleen Felton, Health, 26 May 2023
  • There are many types of E. coli — a type of bacteria — and some are harmless and even live in people’s intestines.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Most strains are harmless, but some can cause severe illness, the release said.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023

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