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Examples for "vain "
Examples for "vain "
1 I coaxed; I threatened; I persuaded; but it was all in vain .
2 They organize in vain ; they protest in vain ; they appeal in vain .
3 I can say this, however: your good looks haven't made you vain .
4 Mark inquired; Lord Minchampstead inquired; great personages inquired; but all in vain .
5 Her aunt scolded in vain ; in spite of the remarks of Mlle.
1 Therefore, hoping it will happen in the future is futile , he said.
2 But ultimately all three Irish teams' defiance against French opposition proved futile .
3 I once treated a young father who decided to stop futile chemotherapy.
4 Employers branded today's action futile and insisted no more money is available.
5 I often think that my mission was futile from the very start.
1 Luke Donald's diamond-patterned sleeveless jumpers are a throwback to older fashion days.
2 Loose-fitting women's tops rendered in natural fibers were sleeveless and seemingly carefree.
3 She soon peeled away two layers to reveal a sleeveless orange top.
4 She was wearing nothing but her panties and a sleeveless baby-doll nightgown.
5 The long, sleeveless pale-blue satiny dress she wore looked like a nightgown.
1 But the son of Saturn afflicts me with bootless wranglings and strife.
2 The old Squire never learned of Halstead's bootless experiment in forced feeding.
3 Buddhism was an after-thought, only reached after six years of bootless asceticism.
4 Mr. Thomas Marvel stood bootless and amazed, his jacket nearly thrown off.
5 Then came a sound as of bootless feet pressing the stairs stealthily!
1 Yet, each search over the course of almost two years proved fruitless .
2 Fighting him on land is fruitless , he just slips back to sea.
3 But all efforts to find their family and their home proved fruitless .
4 An unprecedented multinational search for the jet has so far proved fruitless .
5 That too was a fruitless effort; it had no intention of compliance.
6 The morning passed away in unceasing yet fruitless speculation on the future.
7 Attempts to create vaccines over the last three decades have proved fruitless .
8 Neither of the captives, however, submitted without a desperate though fruitless struggle.
9 Attempting to be stylish used to be a fruitless task at Glastonbury.
10 Again I tried to urge him forward; but the attempt was fruitless .
11 His search had proved fruitless , but that did not change his mind.
12 Yet the cause was righteous and the opposition proved vain and fruitless .
13 But now they'd been called off after three days of fruitless searching.
14 Talks now would either be fruitless or delay a proper restart later.
15 Meanwhile, the efforts of the police to find the assassin were fruitless .
16 So now to my fruitless appointment at the bottom of the garden.
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