How to Use senseless in a Sentence

senseless

adjective
  • Don't be such a senseless idiot!
  • End these stupid, senseless wars.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Which means a senseless tax code is the friend of politicians.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • This was senseless the first time around and senseless again.
    — Carolyn Burt, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
  • This was a senseless and tragic loss.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Chicago is worse off for this senseless loss.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • News of each senseless gun death in this country rips open a painful wound for me.
    — Lucy McBath, Cosmopolitan, 23 June 2017
  • But the bad here outweighs the good for a league that doesn't need to take senseless risks.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The news of this senseless violence comes as a shock to all of us.
    — oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2019
  • For her to be killed in such a senseless way is unfathomable.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • There is no place in our state for this type of senseless violence.
    — Sophia Compton , Elizabeth Pritchett , Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2025
  • This struck a lot of victims as both heartless and senseless.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
  • We are so deeply shattered by this tragic and senseless loss.
    — Tony Aiello, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Crystal Smith said her son’s death was senseless, like so many are.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The senseless act that took his life, while on the job, was horrible.
    — Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2017
  • While each case is different, the deaths have all been senseless.
    — Dallas News, 1 June 2020
  • None of the Falcone movies are very good, but this is the most senseless.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024
  • When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised, not one day.
    — Nivea Serrao, EW.com, 12 June 2017
  • The killings seem senseless, but, says the author, the city can do more to grasp their causes.
    — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
  • This was a cowardly and senseless act that has led to the loss of a great athlete.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The ordeal was no longer a senseless drive to nowhere but a sensible one to nowhere.
    — Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • His death is a senseless tragedy that has left our family shattered.
    — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The neighbor who was with the victim said the shooting was senseless.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al.com, 23 July 2019
  • If somebody takes you deep, just get him out the next time — don’t drill him in the ribs and start a senseless fight.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2018
  • My heart is with her family and loved ones, who are now grieving a senseless tragedy.
    — Dave Savini, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • May the peace of the Almighty wash over those hurting after this senseless tragedy.
    — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 29 May 2017
  • But in the long shadow of senseless acts, each found a soul mate who could grasp what the other had been through.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
  • How can we not all be filled with outrage over the senseless killing and shooting of young children?
    — Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • There was space to just forget; there was time to gather ourselves and make sense of the senseless.
    — Bassey Ikpi, The Root, 26 May 2017

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