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Example sentences for "senseless"

Lexicographically close words:
sensationalistic; sensationally; sensations; sense; sensed; senselesse; senselessly; senselessness; senses; sensi
  1. The same bein' a big, husky, red-blooded cave man which would club her senseless and carry her off to his lair.

  2. I heard the well known dull thud on the other side of the cabinet, and I guess it was Professor Parducci fallin' senseless on the floor.

  3. Then let the stony dart of senseless cold Pierce through the centre of my wither'd heart, And make a passage for my loathed life!

  4. He reached his room, and fell senseless on the floor.

  5. For his reassurance, however, I promised to account fully for my apparently senseless excitement; and that evening I commenced the narrative which forms the preceeding part of this story.

  6. He sat staring about him, with, of all his mental faculties, only his imagination awake, from which the thoughts that occupied it when he fell senseless had not yet faded.

  7. A senseless whim must not blast your highest happiness.

  8. A senseless notion struck Cornelia, that with the baronetcy he had perhaps inherited some of the madness of his father.

  9. What is this disease but a silly, a senseless waste?

  10. Then he bent low, gazing sharply into the white face of his senseless burden.

  11. Now he bent on one knee over the senseless O'Byrn, peering strangely into his face.

  12. At the very center of the circle where the glitterings were brightest, the humming sound was overwhelmed by the submarine tumult of senseless fish voices.

  13. He went back to the probably senseless business of taking an inventory.

  14. I wandered from street to street, till, exhausted by hunger and fatigue, I sunk down senseless at a door, where I had vainly demanded a morsel of bread.

  15. Then you do not fear my anger at the senseless and hostile conduct of your husband?

  16. You ought to keep your family in bounds, sir; you ought not to permit your children to indulge in such senseless military tirades.

  17. For my part, I never counselled any one to commence this senseless war, and now that there is peace, I scarcely regard myself as a Prussian functionary; and yet you continue repeating that ridiculous title!

  18. The king is wandering about without shelter, and the queen will now regret with bitter tears that she instigated her husband to this senseless and unjust war.

  19. Camilla uttered a loud shriek, and sank senseless to the floor.

  20. Why was it a useless and senseless thing?

  21. He never alluded to the Missouri compromise, unless it was by the allusion to the Wilmot proviso in the Oregon bill, and therein said it was a useless and, in that connection, senseless thing.

  22. He went on to speak of the prohibition of slavery in Oregon, and he said it was an "entirely useless and, in that connection, senseless proviso.

  23. It was pallor of anger; anger of soul at the senseless waste.

  24. They might have taken place in the senseless procession of Time, puppets of women, wasted lives in the thrusting crowd.

  25. Oh--the waste--the senseless waste of it!

  26. In the fall the boy was dashed so violently upon the water, that becoming instantly senseless he would have sunk but for Nicholas, who, getting hold of the long hair of his head, managed to drag him into the boat.

  27. Then, without more words, they bore the senseless girl to the spot indicated by Chow, and pushing aside the brushwood, entered a cavern lighted from the top by a small grating, and laid her upon the floor.

  28. Hughes was lying senseless on the planking of the raft, while Adams, whose wound had broken out again, was in a helpless condition.

  29. The senseless body was tossed to and fro like a cork, half a dozen huge fins appearing above the water.

  30. Isabel lay senseless on the planking of the cabin, and the seamen held a hurried consultation together.

  31. At this last revelation there was a fearful scream, and Grace Carden fell senseless on the pavement.

  32. One hardly believes that this could have been, so senseless and dreadful is it,--and yet it was; sixty thousand maintainers of their families lost their lives owing to the will of those men.

  33. The mother needed an offset--something fine and bright--to balance the gloomy incident she had witnessed that day, with its senseless horror and shameless cruelty.

  34. The day passed in a thick mist of empty, senseless longing.

  35. And this sole chance was frustrate from my birth, A mockery, a delusion; and my breath Of noble human life upon this earth So racks me that I sigh for senseless death.

  36. Nothing, however, really depends on these senseless blind adherents of Haeckel's unproved assertions.

  37. Huxley Smythe is also aware that this integument has been mutilated by some senseless and wicked hand.

  38. The sight of his misery affected his wife so much that she fainted, and was carried senseless to her chamber.

  39. For the senseless freak which had produced these effects Wentworth is not responsible.

  40. Assault of squalls that mock the watchful guard, And pluck the bursting canvas from the yard, And senseless clamour of the calm, at night Must mar your slumbers.

  41. He had no time to think of that senseless advice when it was given, but it may be taken for granted the cautious mate did not add to his popularity with the crew.

  42. The spirit had been knocked out of the officers and crew by senseless bullying and wicked persecution.

  43. I had been much in that country, and thought I knew a great deal about it and the sinister system of government that breeds revolutionaries; but the tales of cruel, senseless despotism told by these people made me shudder with horror.

  44. Sheer senseless vanity--as if that mattered!

  45. Never in life would she give in, and never her match for turning and twisting heaven and earth to a medley of seeming kindness and malice, poison and senseless words.

  46. Of course, his comrades knew it had been through no ability of his, but the knowledge that he had been knocked senseless by Forsythe's great speed, and had suffered so that his college might score, thrilled them.

  47. The time keeper, to whom the referee had megaphoned for time out, stopped the game, while Captain Butch Brewster, the campus Doctor, and several players worked over the senseless Biff.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "senseless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abnormal; absurd; aimless; amorphous; anesthetized; apish; asinine; asleep; baseless; batty; beguiled; benumbed; besotted; blind; brainless; brute; capricious; casual; catatonic; cockeyed; cold; comatose; contradictory; cracked; crazy; credulous; daft; dazed; dead; demented; deranged; desultory; disarticulated; discontinuous; disjunct; disordered; disoriented; dispersed; disproportionate; distraught; dizzy; doped; doting; drugged; dumb; empty; erratic; fallacious; fatuous; faulty; fitful; flaky; flawed; flighty; fond; fool; foolish; formless; frivolous; fuddled; futile; garbled; gratuitous; haphazard; headless; hollow; idiotic; idle; ignorant; illogical; imbecile; impolitic; imprudent; inadvisable; inane; inanimate; inchoate; inconclusive; incongruous; inconsequent; inconsequential; inconsiderate; inconsistent; indiscreet; indiscriminate; inept; inert; inexpedient; infatuated; injudicious; insane; insensate; insensible; insensitive; insentient; insignificant; invalid; irrational; irregular; lifeless; loco; loony; loose; lunatic; mad; manic; maudlin; meaningless; mental; mindless; misguided; misshapen; mute; nirvanic; nonsensical; null; numb; nutty; oblivious; odd; off; out; planless; pointless; preposterous; promiscuous; psycho; purposeless; queer; random; reasonless; reckless; sappy; scrambled; screwy; senseless; sentimental; shapeless; shortsighted; sick; silly; simple; soulless; spasmodic; sporadic; stoned; straggling; strange; stupid; tetched; thoughtless; touched; unadvised; unauthentic; unbalanced; unclassified; unconnected; unconscious; unconsidered; undirected; undiscerning; unfeeling; ungraded; unhinged; unintelligent; unmethodical; unordered; unorganized; unreasonable; unreasoning; unreflecting; unscientific; unseeing; unsettled; unsorted; unsound; unsymmetrical; unsystematic; unthinking; unwise; vague; wandering; wet; witless