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Harmless in sentence

196 examples of Harmless in a sentence

They're also harmless plankton-feeding animals.
Or is globaloney just a harmless way of getting people to pay more attention to globalization-related issues?
In particular, when we asked them questions about sort of taboo but fairly harmless sexual practices, just being reminded that they ought to wash their hands made them think that they were more morally wrong.
Let me give you an example of what I mean by harmless but taboo sexual practice.
Diets may seem harmless, but they actually do a lot of collateral damage.
What they're really saying is, "I have agreed to make myself such a harmless and unthreatening and uninteresting person that I actually don't fear having the government know what it is that I'm doing."
The other really destructive and, I think, even more insidious lesson that comes from accepting this mindset is there's an implicit bargain that people who accept this mindset have accepted, and that bargain is this: If you're willing to render yourself sufficiently harmless, sufficiently unthreatening to those who wield political power, then and only then can you be free of the dangers of surveillance.
They used to call me Softy, meaning the soft, harmless boy.
First, remember that many of the lies we encounter on a daily basis are far less serious that these examples, and may even be harmless.
So what seems like such a harmless habit actually has the power to change our health.
If all your internal organs are flipped, a condition called situs inversus, it's often harmless.
Unfortunately, radium isn't the only pigment that historically seemed harmless or useful but turned out to be deadly.
It exploded, and he died a violent death, blown to bits by the very same device that had proved harmless to me.
Not the lowercase, muttered-behind-my-back kind, or the seemingly harmless chubby or cuddly.
Within the body, short-term weightlessness is mostly harmless.
These examples might seem inconsequential and harmless, but they're insidious, slowly building into a culture that refuses to see women as people.
In Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut’s characters turn to a different source of meaning: Bokonism, a religion based on harmless lies that all its adherents recognize as lies.
Now, most of these point mutations are harmless.
This algae is harmless to the fish who eat it, but for the sea lions which ingest those fish, the algae’s domoic acid can trigger seizures and brain damage.
What you're looking at on this slide is just a person from my lab holding a flask of a liquid culture of a bacterium, a harmless, beautiful bacterium that comes from the ocean, named Vibrio fischeri.
It seems, I suppose, a harmless prejudice and that you're not really hurting anybody.
Unlike other vestigial structures, though, the appendix isn’t always harmless— it can become dangerously inflamed.
While blood thinners and aspirin are generally harmless when taken individually, interactions where one substance exacerbates the effects of another can also take place between drugs that are independently harmful.
Enzymes can both activate drugs, by breaking them down into their therapeutic ingredients from more complex molecules, and deactivate them, by breaking harmful compounds down into harmless metabolites.
But unbeknownst to Yusupov, one of his co-conspirators had a change of heart, and substituted the poison with a harmless substance.
It does have big teeth, however, and it's kind of hard to convince people if an animal has big teeth, that it's a harmless creature.
And this is actually how a cancer goes from being harmless, to being deadly.
So, if angiogenesis is a tipping point between a harmless cancer and a harmful one, then one major part of the angiogenesis revolution is a new approach to treating cancer by cutting off the blood supply.
It looks harmless enough.
But in that action, that interaction, by re-scripting that, by changing it into an opportunity to offer food that is nutritionally appropriate, that could augment the nutritional resources that we ourselves have depleted for augmenting the fish population and also adding chelating agent, which, like any chelating agent that we use medicinally, binds to the bioaccumulated heavy metals and PCBs that are in the fish living in this particular habitat and allows them to pass it out as a harmless salt where it's complexed by a reactive, effectively removing it from bioavailability.
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