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Example sentences for "ineffective"

Lexicographically close words:
inedits; ineffable; ineffably; ineffaceable; ineffaceably; ineffectively; ineffectiveness; ineffectual; ineffectually; inefficacious
  1. It seems that the use of the dangerous and ineffective salicylic acid will soon be given up and hymosa take its place.

  2. Heubner believes that another motive influencing the editors was the fact that their efforts in behalf of reform, sporadic and ineffective at the best, had been replaced by the propaganda of the commission.

  3. These measures, while ruining the commerce of the Philippines, were as a matter of fact ineffective to accomplish the result desired.

  4. The people of Cuba, who made repeated ineffective struggles against Spanish sovereignty, always had the good wishes of the American people.

  5. In foreign politics England intervened once or twice in an ineffective way, and a good deal of sympathy was shown, much of it in a practical fashion, for the cause of the Protestant King of Bohemia.

  6. On the other hand, Massinger avoids those scenes on board ship of which Fletcher is so fond, and which on the Jacobean stage must have been ineffective to the spectators, and indeed, are so on any stage.

  7. Paper blockade, an ineffective blockade, as by a weak naval force.

  8. The word of God, without the spirit, [is] a dead and ineffective letter.

  9. But, where matters are so grave and the time so short, the risk of proposing something that is unwelcome or ineffective cannot be avoided.

  10. He contrasted this simple and overruling knowledge of God as the supreme fact in a practical world with that vague and ineffective subject for sentiment who had been the "God" of his Anglican days.

  11. The life which was as vivid all about him as if caught by the latest instantaneous process made the same comparatively ineffective appeal.

  12. The final line-up showed eighteen Senators for the effective Stetson bill and against the ineffective Wright bill; while twenty-two Senators were against the Stetson bill and for the Wright bill.

  13. He voted against the effective Stetson bill; he voted for the ineffective Railroad Regulation bill.

  14. The ineffective Wright Railroad Regulation bill became a law, while the Stetson Railroad measure effective as finally amended - was rejected.

  15. When the test came on the Stetson bill the twenty holdovers split even, ten being for the effective Stetson bill, ten for the ineffective Wright bill.

  16. A comparatively effective railroad regulation bill was rejected and an ineffective measure passed.

  17. Indeed, it met with the same sort of honest but ineffective resistance that attended the election of Stanton to the Speakership of the Lower House.

  18. He voted against the adoption of the practical absolute rate, and for the impracticable maximum rate; he voted for the ineffective Wright bill and against the effective Stetson bill.

  19. When the Direct Primary bill was before the Senate Committee on Election Laws, Hare's vote was with those of Wolfe and Leavitt to make the measure as ineffective as possible.

  20. The investigations appeared to have developed primarily not so much from ineffective and wrong decisions in meeting war needs as from delays due to indecision and procrastination.

  21. The French advance met with the strongest opposition from the Germans, but their efforts were ineffective and their casualties heavy.

  22. A few seconds later, however, he caught the ball fairly on the trade mark and drove it over the head of Carney, who made an amusingly ineffective leap for it.

  23. The return fire was so ragged and ineffective that our vessels were scarcely touched, and only three men were wounded in the whole of Jellicoe’s main Fleet.

  24. The guns can shoot much farther, twice as far, when the gunners or the fire directors up aloft can see; but gunnery without proper light is a highly wasteful and ineffective business.

  25. Their gun-fire was so poor and ineffective that Jellicoe’s Main Fleet was barely scratched and three men only were wounded.

  26. The Papacy itself seems to have had no definite ideas of right and wrong at the time, or at least did not put them into practice; had, in fact, become thoroughly corrupt and ineffective for good.

  27. Compared with the concrete performance of such social workers as these, the gospel according to Whitman and Tolstoï is bound to seem vague in its outlines, and ineffective in its concrete results.

  28. And then, punishments must be administered; but if punishment is for improvement, it has been as ineffective as the treaties.

  29. It seems very thin armor, an ineffective sword: but what a victory they won!

  30. It was a popular but totally ineffective measure; and in 1669 England abandoned her allies and went over to France.

  31. It was to hail Luther as an auxiliary, as the most powerful leader in the work of eradicating evils which were a familiar scandal to all religious men, and the constant theme of ineffective Cardinals on every solemn occasion.

  32. After an ineffective attempt by Lord Derby to form a Cabinet, Lord Palmerston--the only possible man in the existing state of public opinion--became Prime Minister.

  33. But the latter, feeling himself over-balanced by his own ineffective violence, leapt far out of reach before turning to see what had happened.

  34. Opposition to the marriage will be curiously ineffective if the marriage has already taken place.

  35. Here is the encouragement and the interpretation of many an insignificant and apparently ineffective life.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ineffective" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abortive; aimless; barren; bootless; crude; effete; emasculate; empty; failed; failing; fatuous; featherweight; feckless; feeble; flabby; fruitless; futile; hollow; impotent; impractical; inadequate; inane; incapable; incompetent; ineffective; ineffectual; inefficient; inept; inferior; inoperative; invalid; invertebrate; lame; lightweight; limp; manque; meaningless; nugatory; null; pale; pointless; powerless; purposeless; shiftless; spineless; sterile; stillborn; superfluous; unable; unadapted; unavailable; unavailing; unendowed; unequipped; unfit; unfortunate; unproductive; unprofitable; unqualified; unsuccessful; useless; vain; void; wan; weak