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How to use futile in a sentence

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I felt that, in disobeying the law, I was honouring them in my own small, unheroic and doubtless futile way.
A lack of evidence in absence of harm cannot be interpreted as useless or futile.
In typical Borgesian style, the search for truth in this short story is always a futile effort.
Tourism should not be allowed to become another football for the tiresome and futile political arena.
Efforts to convince the security staff proved futile and at one stage the media threatened to boycott the prime minister's visit.
Resistance was futile, and over time many grew to love their new mechanical master.
And it is a futile exercise for those overseeing markets to say that no one should use soft dollars.
You shift from one leg to the other, but know that that is a fairly futile attempt to relieve your discomfort.
After being woken at 3am by his young daughter he realised that a heavy frost had fallen and would make breaming futile.
Can there be anything more futile than to combine the huge range of music we find under the vapid and vacuous heading Easy Listening?
Thus Dillard echoes Carlyle's sentiments that vaticination, or the act of prophesying, is a futile means of understanding the world.
It will be futile and fruitless, but at least it will voice my opinion and ease some of my frustrations.
But the slightly futile gesture of outwitting corporate no-marks is more than offset by the final scene.
The Comanche had gone into spiral mode, twisting this way and that in a futile attempt to stay airborne.
One must therefore reject the notion that an argument for celibacy is a futile gesture, foredoomed to failure.
It's a great cause and I know from my own futile efforts to stay on the wagon, a great gesture from the alcohol loving Smith.
Josh's mind boggled in the futile effort to penetrate the abstruse complexity of an esoteric form of thinking that was altogether foreign to him.
Of course, any attempt to calculate or judge the exact stock market bottom is futile.
The heating had failed at the hairdressers and Jerry had to keep putting on the hairdryers in a futile attempt to warm the place.
Yet again her insomniac tendencies won out as she knew that seeking sleep any time soon would be futile as well as foolhardy.
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There was a futile attempt to block the kick, but the spheroid sailed over the bar.
He fashions a reed pipe wherewith to talk to the bird, but his effort is futile.
There were arrests, incidents of banditry and pillage, and many futile Turkish efforts to restore order.
Your scientific monitor calls you from futile reveries, and repeats his formula of decomposition and recomposition.
This justifies the most special researches and the most futile in all appearance.
This will show how futile any attempt must be which shall have for its object to prevent the formation of the scurf.
He felt that it would be like an attack, although a futile and antlike one, at creation itself.
Yet that course seemed no less futile than any other of which I could bethink me.
The traffic had never appeared so congested, the efforts of the agents on point duty so hopelessly futile.
Were it not for the oppression of his futile and philoprogenitive presence, imaginative writers would be poets and romancers.
At such an hour as this Malone wasted no minim of strength in futile anger.
Miss miniver followed with an expression of perplexity, her mouth shaped to futile expositions.
The misogamist type of woman cannot fail to prove as futile as the misogamist man.
It would be futile to delude ourselves that at present, readers find every pathography unsavory.
But his well-meant attempt to assuage the stricken creature's wo was futile.
The application of the number theory issues in a barren and futile arithmetical mysticism.
And also she was asking herself with futile reiteration why she had got into debt at Oxbridge?
Faster and faster rushed the car in futile attempt to outpace the whispered treason.
No doubt it is producing enormous quantities of cerebration, but is it anything more than chaotic and futile cerebration?
They reentered the city as the first owlish lights were peeping out, futile, brave little rebels against the spreading night.
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