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How to use the word needless in a Sentence? Page #3

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Needless to say, you all know the kidnappings, evictions, killings of Sunnis that happen every day in Baghdad, thousands and thousands.

Iraqi Sunnis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is unfortunately a needless distraction for me. Now I'll be spending time answering to the regulator and stock exchange on what happened.

Narendra Surana

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was never my intention to cause upset or harm, but needless to say that is what happened.

Peter Nash

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Midazolam, the first drug in the three-drug formula used by Oklahoma, is not capable of producing the necessary, deep anesthesia to insure that a prisoner will not experience severe pain, needless suffering and a lingering death during the lethal injection process.

Dale Baich

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We've got a lot of work to do, the taxpayer cannot comprehend it, let alone support the defense budget when they read ... of cost overruns, lack of accounting and accountability, needless overhead, and the like. This must stop.

Ashton Carter

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I cannot suggest support and stability for the defense budget without at the same time frankly noting that not every defense dollar is spent as well as it should be, the taxpayer cannot comprehend, let alone support, the defense budget when they read of cost overruns, lack of accounting and accountability, needless overhead and the like.

Ashton Carter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It was mass confusion, needless to say, when the event occurred.

City Manager Diane Pfeil

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.

George Wither

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

Confucius

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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14 years ago

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