Mordaunt tried for a moment to read in the general's face if this was simply a useless question, or whether he knew everything.

But he tormented himself like this over useless questions all the time.

I ask a thousand useless questions, just digging and shooting in the dark.

He had been an officer long enough not to bother his commander with useless questions.

The useless questions never came back to him again.

"That's enough," said the chief judge, who had warned against useless questions just minutes earlier.

He would never teach himself to avoid asking useless questions.

I have spent far too much time wondering about such useless questions.

And then wondered why he would think of such a useless question at a time like this.

All they asked me were useless questions about what Leighton was wearing and when he went out.