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vain sentence examples

  • Vain to persuade a policeman to let him enter downing street!
  • Vain conceit?
  • Lets not let carlo's death be in vain.
  • Now that it's happened, however, he's sadly proven too vain for that.
  • Vain to escape several times from prison.
  • Vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
  • Tony blair and new labor were so vain that all they could think about was the glory of the opening ceremony.
  • If once they seemed vain, now surely their reality fills me - as sunlight fills the lost man who waited out the night.
  • Vain to expect the whole world to be won over to liberal toleration within one or two generations.
  • Vain attempt to lose some weight i have taken to reading the labels on the food i buy.
  • Now that it's happened, however, he's sadly proven too vain for that.
  • They became vain in their own conceits because they chose to be great rather than humble.
  • Vain to attempt counting her guns - some heavy metal - a great many shots, the noise enough to deafen one.
  • Vain repetition.
  • Now all this might sound quite vain and you'd be half right.
  • Vain to find the commandment which stated they were not allowed to do this.
  • Vain imaginings.
  • These people are very vain and greedy for costly things!
  • Vain to keep up.
  • Vain hope to take on a third road is doomed to failure.

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