He had no memory of any creature with this ability to turn seemingly useless appendages to such direct purpose.

In seconds it withered to a dry, useless appendage.

He was beginning to get some feeling back into the useless appendage.

There was no one for her to bond with; she was a useless appendage.

He was beginning to feel like a useless appendage with nothing to do.

Will the time come when man is a useless appendage headed for the evolutionary scrap heap?

Her head was immense, while the rest of her body atrophied to a useless appendage.

And like a useless appendage, Leningrad Swung from its prisons.