1.   Both runways have been rendered useless by enemy bombings.

2.   Plentiful moisture in the extreme northern latitudes, for example, is rendered useless by severe winter frost and an abbreviated growing season.

3.   Brown said his client took only the second drug, which was prescribed to tame the side effects of the Haldol and was useless by itself.

4.   It is useless by itself.

5.   Last season, Brown was rendered almost useless by defensive schemes that failed to make use of his quickness.

6.   The neurons in that part of the spinal cord are crushed, or severed, or otherwise made useless by injury.

7.   The Redbirds are the sympathetic creatures, sputtering along with the big Bird, Mark McGwire, again rendered useless by a chronically sore knee.

8.   The jet is parked near five other aircraft rendered useless by the U.S. bombardment in October.

9.   He said some only replied years later, their information useless by then.