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Example sentences for "aimless"

Lexicographically close words:
aiment; aimer; aimeth; aimez; aiming; aimlessly; aimlessness; aimons; aims; ain
  1. Heretofore the intercourse between the two had been tentative and incoherent,--a doubtful, aimless grappling with strange conditions which seemed delightful, but might mask unknown dangers.

  2. He kept the deck, and tried to talk with the men, following them about and asking aimless questions, until they began to give him short answers.

  3. These Titanic events must doubtless seem to our limited vision like an endless and aimless series of cosmical changes.

  4. In past times the disbelief in the soul's immortality has always accompanied that kind of philosophy which, under whatever name, has regarded Humanity as merely a local incident in an endless and aimless series of cosmical changes.

  5. But this new life was unable to breathe in the old atmosphere: it felt aimless in it and estranged; and she had managed to force it into a different path, in spite of all the opposition of her family and friends.

  6. She, a woman, a young woman, an aimless woman: how sad her life was!

  7. If once the spirit of mad, aimless riot broke loose, I had not only no chance of a hearing, but every likelihood of being implicated in deeds which I abhorred.

  8. Then, turning, he retraced his aimless steps.

  9. Hastily he put the temptation down, and walked to the door and opened it again: taking swift, aimless turns up and down the room.

  10. Some one suggested a ladder, and in a moment there was an aimless scurrying and turning amongst the women.

  11. From the deep green shadow cast by the graveyard wall, heavily buttressed against avalanches, a form wriggled out into the moonlight and fell with a dusty thud at my feet, mowing and chopping at the air with its aimless claws.

  12. What to thee is shadow, to Him is day, And the end He knoweth, And not on a blind and aimless way The spirit goeth.

  13. But now, through weary day and night, I watch a vague and aimless fight For leave to strike one blow aright.

  14. She repeated the pilgrimage on three lonely evenings during the course of the week, and began to regard these aimless rambles as a necessity of existence.

  15. For the third time in the hour of aimless wanderings he found himself loitering opposite the berth of the Belle Julie, an up-river steamboat whose bell gave sonorous warning of the approaching moment of departure.

  16. He was confronting another of the false climaxes in the hour of aimless wanderings on the river front.

  17. After an hour of aimless tramping he began to have occasional near-hand glimpses of the lake; and a little farther along he came out upon the main-travelled road leading to the summer-resort hotel at the head of De Soto Bay.

  18. And without knowing how this aimless lie had escaped him, he went along with resolute and triumphant steps between the French soldiers.

  19. When they were out of the village they began talking again as loud as before, interlarding their talk with the same aimless expletives.

  20. And by chance an escape from this dangerous position presents itself in the form of an aimless and senseless expedition to Africa.

  21. The second room was empty, and there Desmond's aimless wandering had been checked by a battle picture; a vigorous and tragic presentment of Sir John Moore's retreat from Corunna.

  22. The proposition simply is to lounge along the road in an apparently aimless fashion, and, if the enemy are not too near to render it dangerous, enter Mount Holly.

  23. There was no response, and the boat kept on her aimless course, making slowly, very slowly, for the bay.

  24. Right reason rejects as an utterly inadequate explanation of the natural order of the universe the fantastic and far-fetched supposition of a chance collocation of indifferent, undetermined and aimless physical agencies.

  25. So far from manifesting the wisdom, power and goodness of God they would evidence an aimless and senseless prodigality.

  26. Most of the natural demands have a definite reason and are prophylactic rather than merely a symptom of aimless discomfort.

  27. See what happens in these cases when by some chance the women, or the men, who complain almost constantly are suddenly deprived of the means which enabled them to live an aimless life.

  28. The wild is not an aimless mix-up in that way.

  29. It is either disunion and civil war or it is mere angry, idle, aimless disturbance of public peace and tranquillity.

  30. This applies alike to the deliberate demagogue, to the exploiter of sensationalism, and to the crude and foolish visionary who, for whatever reason, apologizes for crime or excites aimless discontent.

  31. Under some foolish, aimless impulse, he took a few quick steps towards the door.

  32. It was in the course of one of these aimless rambles that I first met Felix Stanniford, and so led up to what has been the most extraordinary adventure of my lifetime.

  33. The mother sometimes turned and listened to this aimless talk with an amused gravity, as of a cat watching the gambols of a kitten, but generally she devoted herself to Sheila, who sat opposite her.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aimless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.