How to Use senseless in a Sentence

senseless

adjective
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  • Adding to the senseless crime is the fact the eagle wasn’t alone in the nest when it was shot.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • This was senseless the first time around and senseless again.
    — Carolyn Burt, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The senseless charnel houses of Verdun and the Somme found their match in Bakhmut.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Kim Boykin: These deaths are so senseless and so preventable.
    — USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2024
  • For her to be killed in such a senseless way is unfathomable.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Boy George could go rabid and beat us senseless, right?
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2023
  • It’s our nature to make sense of something like this that is senseless.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The news Monday that she had been killed at work was senseless, Raiola said.
    — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The case captivated the public, which was shocked by the senseless nature of the crime.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
  • And most senseless of all, the victims of gun violence.
    — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Her life was taken from her at the young age of 23 in a senseless cowardly act .
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 17 Jan. 2023
  • This was a tragic and senseless murder and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the victim.
    — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Our hearts go out to the victims, families, and friends involved in the senseless tragedy.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Our Amber & Justin have been taken from us in such a senseless act.
    — Helena Oliviero, ajc, 20 Nov. 2021
  • How can we not all be filled with outrage over the senseless killing and shooting of young children?
    — Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • Batt’s discomfort with the senseless killing of the dog was evident to others at the scene.
    — Ali Winston, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2023
  • She was taken from us because of a senseless act in a mass shooting.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 1 June 2022
  • No pesky Washington States to hammer you senseless in the cold.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • But justice might offer them a sense of closure to a senseless crime.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The senseless killing has left her heartbroken, Reinoso said.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The poem had been senseless at home: who would want to be compared to a summer’s day in Bombay?
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • He was taken from us too soon due to a senseless act of gun violence!
    — Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Like, people are dying out in the streets for senseless reasons.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 2 June 2021
  • For Kerr, each senseless act of violence in this country hits close to home.
    — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The vandalism has cost the department money and time because of the senseless acts of some individual(s).
    — cleveland, 4 July 2021
  • With no fortune to offer, Wentworth would have been a senseless match.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 16 July 2022
  • This is a senseless loss of an immensely talented artist with his whole life in front of him.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 July 2022
  • One riding scene has haunted me to this day, and the senseless shooting on Tuesday in Brooklyn brought it back to mind.
    — Paul Callan, CNN, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Our hearts go out to the families affected by this senseless vandalism.
    — Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 2 July 2024
  • The significance of this case is the senseless tragedy of the young man’s death, as well as the fact that my client was acquitted for an inexcusable lack of investigation by the police and the State.
    — Emilio "emi" Benitez, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024

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