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futile sentence examples

  • Futile to attempt to estimate our final gains at the present time.
  • The quote stated " the animal testing regime... is utterly futile.
  • For meanings to be attributed on personal whim renders the whole thing futile.
  • Futile gesture against the government.
  • All attempts at soothing prove futile: " do you want an ice cream?
  • Futile to try to be the new microsoft?
  • Yet still there is a feeling that all is ultimately futile.
  • Futile attempt to obtain a better look.
  • Well, rest assured, in many ways it seems futile to me too.
  • Futile to think that the commission can create a perfect society.
  • Even as i reach for the receiver iâm checking the clock in a somewhat futile effort to fathom the time and place and day.
  • Futile quest for a 'new american empire ' .
  • Introduce traitors into his country, that the government policy may be rendered futile.
  • Other equally futile attacks were ordered that day by the british 1st army commander, general sir douglas haig, with similar tragic results.
  • Futile pursuit of immortality?
  • All burnley fans want to believe; without that belief, the whole damn enterprise becomes futile.
  • The mutual opposition was largely futile, if only because all three initiatives shared the characteristic of being strictly voluntary.
  • Futile effort to fathom the time and place and day.
  • It would be fairly futile having a charlton player of the year award this year.
  • Futile exercise in word association.

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