Producing no result or effect.
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Examples for "futile "
Examples for "futile "
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 Urban voters in particular have criticized Banda's response as ponderous and ineffectual .
2 After an ineffectual resistance he fell in the commencement of the action.
3 I said something ineffectual , to salve my conscience, and we carried on.'
4 Why has the southern African regional body been, in comparison, so ineffectual ?
5 Syrinx gave him an ineffectual grimace of sympathy, unsure what to say.
1 There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose .
2 Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose , unadored.
3 Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
4 There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose .
5 We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
1 Real violence was unavailing where the opponents were in a large majority.
2 His search was unavailing ; the mysterious reptile was not to be found.
3 What a contrast to the honest if unavailing efforts of the team.
4 They actually walked over the log in their unavailing search for him.
5 Hurstwood heard the details of the weary and unavailing search that evening.
6 To walk in the night brings misadventure, and unavailing struggle for contentment.
7 I wandered from room to room in the dark, with unavailing sorrow.
8 But his efforts were unavailing ; Kepler would not leave his own country.
9 The one speaks of a last and unavailing attempt made by W.K.
10 The precepts of home are unavailing unless enforced by a corresponding example.
11 He lifted up his voice in loud appeals, but they were unavailing .
12 For such an eye as yours even the best oculists are unavailing .
13 All the skill and attention of kind Dr. Gibbs had proved unavailing .
14 Heraklas cast himself down among the vines, and wept his unavailing tears.
15 The riders dismounted and fought on foot, but their gallantry was unavailing .
16 About half-past one the fleet withdrew, seeing their efforts were entirely unavailing .
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