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Sentence Examples I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble. The stroll looks innocuously aimless enough, random conversation and desultory gaits all firmly in place. See, you may think this is just an aimless ramble, but in fact it's all carefully thought out and planned right down to the last semi-colon. She walked into the direction of the Library, as I continued my aimless wandering down the halls. If I harp on how rotten the production is, it's because I have few qualms with the music, outside of the first track, which is just aimless. I'm trying hard not to take this as an indictment of my efforts, assuring myself it's symptomatic of our age, an aimless seeking without focus. The hero, Shaun, an aimless slacker, has been recently dumped by his girlfriend and has to cope with his couch-surfing best friend. But the alternative is to be responsible for a baby spirit wandering aimless and alone through the netherworld. Amy and Carrie paused their aimless conversation to look at me, incredulously. In my experience it tends to get frittered away on TV channel-hopping, window shopping, aimless net surfing or general navel-gazing. Back in 1996, just after I graduated college, I drifted for a time rootless and aimless. The bombing of wedding parties reveals much about the directionless and aimless war in Afghanistan. There is a kind of aimless destructive energy in the villains who speak of their purpose. Why should it be just aimless jamming and soloing, which you see in bands like The Grateful Dead. He had a sure destination now, after for so long of aimless wanderings he knew where to go. And yet, for some reason, we're largely aimless, apathetic, and narcissistic. The commonly-held belief is that bank holiday weekends are just an excuse to laze around, be generally aimless and not do very much at all. Further, this conception renders purposeful art at best aimless and at worst nonsensical. You can see bulging veins in foreheads as determined gift-hunters try to fight through the meandering, aimless shoppers. I had been wandering around the supermarket in an aimless and lethargic fashion when I found myself browsing in the frozen section. Show More Sentences It was cold and grey, as I remember Scotland being on those blank-faced days in winter when you're left feeling aimless and dull. This is a troubling image, redolent of something locked in an aimless subterranean existence. We watch his feet as he wanders in aimless circles trying to determine his direction. This is again a tribute to the producer's ability to involve the youth in something other than aimless time wasting or even worse. There was also a lot of aimless and ill-directed kicking from both sides but suddenly England struck and from an unexpected source. Marina sat on the edge of the bed as Eldon directed his aimless attention to the ceiling. It's a great relief for me to finally find this song, and be able to play it at my leisure, rather than just whistle an aimless tune to myself. When that did not happen, there was no Plan B or Plan C in place, and the bowling looked embarrassingly aimless. David bent over his notebook, making a few aimless strokes with his much-used pencil. We can't ask for rocket science, but comedy is always better wound up and tight versus aimless. The dialogue is even more aimless, the image quality is bad, and the acting is not up to par. By now the charm has worn off these masked characters, and they simply look infantilized and aimless. Emerging from their apparently aimless meanderings came an essential truthfulness, a revelation of how things are. Spencer and I were casually aimless in Newtown giving ourselves caffeine shakes and writing a list of pirate songs for my pirate mixtape. For all of the deliberate twists and turns, the film's action is little more than aimless. That life raft still drifts, aimless and unanchored, on the surface of the vast and roiling ocean that is the self. List the malls, boutiques and department stores you aim to check out in order to eliminate aimless window-shopping. His gaze lifted, and he began walking, continuing his aimless trek around Seattle. Education should not be aimless and there should be a direction to it. Limit your use of the Internet to certain hours, and to focused tasks rather than aimless wandering. Show More Sentences Pressured to distraction, Hawks produced more knock-ons, forward passes, dropped passes, passes into space and aimless kicks than they did in the last two seasons combined. If you associate with persons who live aimlessly in their life you too would remain aimless. Nick, once aimless with a deposition that would make Eeyore seem like Richard Simmons, is now happily dating Jess. After a few aimless years of drifting, he tries to find and establish ethnic roots similar to his own in order to rekindle the principles his father tried to instill in him. The tendency to move about, either in a seemingly aimless or disoriented fashion, in pursuit of an indefinable or unobtainable goal. It reminds me a little of Raising Hope in that it centers on well-intentioned but aimless people who love each other a lot. Her strolls became aimless wanderings and she hated the lack of sunlight. Lots of battling in midfield, then aimless punts forward to chase. Combine sunshine and white sand, long aimless bimbles and brown toes. Liverpool are full of vim and verve but it's all a bit aimless. The early sparring was of the aimless variety, although Dundee had the ball in the net in the fifth minute after a corner taken by Stevie Robb on the left. He plays the part of an aimless, drink-guzzling barfly sage well, but those 25 years have taught Stanhope much. While they wisely stuck to their game plan of short passing and quick movement, the Hoops reverted to hopeful long balls and aimless passes into space. Research is not an aimless digging into the unknown at random in the hope that you will come upon something interesting or useful. History is littered with many an aimless younger sibling who has come to a sticky end through no fault other than the fact that he was the second born. We don't want aimless acts any more than we want desultory negotiations. The West, they will say, found itself living in a superbly efficient but, in the end, aimless machine. Easier said than done, of course. Without a clear and complete statement of purpose, an evaluation risks being aimless and lacking credibility and usefulness. Their seemingly aimless adventures are really a manifestation of one of the chief glories of mankind: the will to learn. And since they do not find it, they abandon their vocation and give themselves over to an aimless life. Show More Sentences Like Adlerian counseling, choice theory rests on the principle that behavior is purposeful, not aimless. But it is Baudelaire's flâneur, the aimless urban meanderer, who best represents the shifting gaze of fashion to the street or, more precisely, to the grand boulevards of Second Empire Paris. Even before the official opening of the City Stars Mall, writes Mona Abaza, thousands of people started gathering there in the evening, just for an aimless walk and to admire this grandiose empire of consumerism. It's Hepburn as Linda, Julia's aimless sister, the black sheep of the family, who perfectly comprehends Johnny's aversion to business, security and stolidness, his aversion to America itself. Outplayed for most of the evening, the Romanians enjoyed a stroke of luck when Dragutinovic nodded a seemingly aimless free-kick past the startled Javi Varas in the Sevilla goal. And while the hour is tied up with a rush of callbacks and a concluding message about life's increasing incomprehensibility, it feels like a case of retrofitting this rather aimless set with purpose. But its cameo is magical, fragile: while the left hand plays an aimless melody, the right hand uses the board to produce giant pianissimo clusters — ghostly commentaries, chords a human hand could never stretch. Our life can no longer be aimless, or closed up in self-pity, or oscillate between the many sources of self-satisfaction and rare acts of generosity. Marco Rubio's book is a work of surpassing laziness, possessed of the aimless, discursive prose of someone remembering what his original point was after concluding a digression he suddenly remembered he wanted to make. Precious metals, commodities, equities and fixed income are taking off helter-skelter, in seemingly aimless counterpoint to the month of May when they all tanked. Leaders who had gathered in Bali for a meeting of APEC, a rather aimless club of countries near the Pacific, devoted time to the deal, which they hope to finish by the end of the year. His government has turned out to be as incompetent, aimless and tainted by scandal as its predecessors. Much of the responsibility for the mess belongs with Mr Hatoyama. If I can not even guide my steps, beloved Joseph, perhaps you forget how you found deceased in the road, lost, aimless, senseless end of my life in which nothing gave everything else and nothing I could learn about life. As one moves away from the centre, the urban growth becomes ever more aimless and discontinuous, more diffuse and unfocussed, except where some surviving town has left the original imprint of a more orderly life. A long life in this world full of fuss gives us a chance to realize that everything in it is aimless and unimportant, apart from real art, which is capable of elevating a person over the common matter. He begins as a wanderer, aimless on a sea he does not understand, and ends as a pilgrim, crossing a final mountain to enter the promised land. Brinsley got out of jail last July, and was desperate and aimless. And the CIA discourages the kind of aimless bloodiness that Jundollah engages in. Up to this point, it's seemingly been more about busywork and aimless button-clicking than meaningful work. Although he seemed less introspective than the rest and his run-on sociobabble was a bit more aimless, he conveyed the same aura of perpetual distraction. Show More Sentences So we get semi-plot ballets without a storyline in sight, offering nothing but aimless, meaningless, and therefore artistically destructive, cheap emoting. Examples from Classical Literature It was no great feat to divert the now aimless Colorado River aqueduct to the site nor to erect thousands of prefabricated houses. He was crossing the Rue Mont Blanc with every appearance of an aimless stroller. The men whose devoted lives have made history great have seen in creation's busyness more than aimless shuddering. A depositing stream often wanders about in an apparently aimless way across its flood plain. Here the waters lost themselves for many feet in the underflow so common in this land of aimless, uncertain waterways. Ricasoli had been driven from office by his own maladroitness and Garibaldi's wild, aimless opposition. They were standing about in little groups or rushing excitedly to and fro in aimless, uncommanded activity. Raphael Poe moseyed through the streets of Moscow in an apparently aimless manner. Half-conscious, aimless and wandering, he lived back in his life to his early manhood on Niihau. It might be thought that the fair Frances led an aimless and idle life. After all their piety was aimless and of no utility to humanity. Another lot were kicking about a football in an aimless way. Followed the usual aimless babble that every low-caste native must raise on every occasion. If he were mad, it was the consequence, and not the cause, of an aimless and abortive life. It flies amongst the tussock grass in a weak and aimless manner. For the most part, she hurried about with febrile, aimless movements. I also became a nameless, weightless, aimless grain of dust. Some were whittling, some making aimless marks in the dust with a stick. The fliers hung aimless overhead, no sparkle to their hulls. I left the lawn and moved in the white light and silence along the road, aimless and sorrowing. Show More Sentences Doubtless both of them understood that the situation had become too serious to lose time in useless words and aimless wrath. The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. Their nomadism has too often been regarded as an aimless wandering. When they were out of the village they began talking again as loud as before, interlarding their talk with the same aimless expletives. Daughtry cried, at sight of the whale flurrying the water with aimless, gigantic splashings. The same thing makes us mad or delirious, dreadful and fearful, whether by night or by day, brings sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness. Never had that great gathering place, that incessant, aimless, unprogressive hurry of waste and battered things, been so crowded with strange and melancholy derelicts. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of aimless? Words that rhyme with aimless What is the adverb for aimless? What is the adjective for aimless? What is the noun for aimless? Translations for aimless Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words aiming to Aiming aiming aimer Aimee aimed to aimlessly aimlessness aims Aims to aim to ain 7-letter Words Starting With a ai aim aiml aimle aimles