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Sentence Examples A consensus on good taste is a futile ambition, for who knows what it would be, and who cares? 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. 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. Show More Sentences Well, perhaps not, for it can better be read as the futile obsecration of one pro-Roman faction, losing out to their retro-Celtic foes. 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. The whole effort to deglamorise the use of tobacco on-screen to reduce its consumption off-screen seems futile. I opened my Economics book to study for a test I had the next day, but it was futile. To date the unions have restricted workers' opposition to protest stoppages and futile appeals to the state and national government. It worked almost too well, resistance was indeed futile, but heck, they probably could've swore at me and the results would have been similar. Finally, Graham conceded defeat after a few futile moments of trying to reach the memory that was dancing on the very edges of his mind. What the deuce was I about when I married one of these scurvy, feckless, futile, scrimshank, scallywag men? The master, not being a man of hard heart, knew that it was futile to try and keep beings unwillingly, but his son was not such a one. I deemed it futile to explain to him the punk-grunge influence on post-material chic. Signs of bloat are stomach pain and futile attempts to vomit and to salivate. He was part of a team that made one last futile attempt to force radio to embrace public interest programming. For him, the journey of his young adulthood was a futile circular movement. Until the recent advances in computational power, simulating the protein coat of an entire icosahedral virus would have been futile. The adoption of fusionist policies by Lombards and Venetians alike proved futile. Surely Mother Nature meting out carnage on such a grand scale shows just how petty and futile man-made squabbles really are. He creates a bad-dream atmosphere, a phantasmagoria of boredom, futile journeys, wasted lives and endless, incantatory meetings. To act as if it were not so is a futile gesture, like whistling in the wind. A Victorian campaign to expunge it is likely to be futile, therefore fatuous. Flopping back on his back and sighing, he gave the blanket a futile tug then attempted to rearrange himself for a more comfortable position. Show More Sentences The step to misology is a small one, for, were one to believe argument to be a futile exercise, one could easily come to hate argument. It's as futile as players complaining to referees after the fact about penalties and red cards. Seemingly, the Soviets took the ball out, threw a futile long pass downcourt and the horn sounded ending the game. It would be futile to hope that athletes might be encouraged toward exemplary behaviour. It is presumably futile to expect that question to be explored in a series which exasperatingly left lots of issues unaddressed. The exchange of ideas and information becomes a battle of wills, a futile and dispiriting activity. After some time spent in a futile effort to disabuse him of some of his favourite ideas, she was rendered speechless. The misstep does suggest that he has not fully understood that trying to hide one's digital footprint is practically futile. Interestingly enough, I avoided emitting a stream of profanities as I made a completely futile attempt to steer. Likewise, it's quite futile to search for daftodi in a swamp or cowbane in the desert. The noise was quite deafening, and my attempt to block all these unwanted sounds by avoiding the vision was almost completely futile. To counter this threat, futilitarians are moving on two fronts to all but guarantee that courts will ultimately acquiesce to futile care theory. Political leaders are confronted suddenly with a new set of conditions that makes continued resistance futile. Many people seem to take this for granted and consider all resistance futile. She is given a terminal diagnosis and told treatment is futile by a consultant as soon as the results are revealed. They do not show an act of suicide but an attempt, however futile, to escape death. She did likewise, shaking her head shortly in a futile attempt at casting away the saliva that had collected from our brawls. So it's a futile effort to try to climb up to God, which is why he sent his son to be our savior. The lumbering shuttle lazily side slipped from port to starboard and back in futile attempts to shake off pursuit. Everyone could sense it was futile, but at least for half an hour they got a chance at some semblance of competition. Show More Sentences If the West's behaviour is futile, it is because the tide of history is against it. Many people speak loosely of others living useless or futile lives, as if a person's worth can be gauged on the basis of his or her activity. As a deterrent to boatpeople, the mindless sabre-rattling by the Australian government is utterly futile. Internet use in China has quadrupled since 2000 and ultimately censorship may prove futile. His men made repeated but ultimately futile attempts to retrieve his body from no-man's land. I could get so accustomed to his company, which is futile since he heads away late next week. Why engage in artistic efforts at all if they are essentially futile and self-defeating and devoid of truth? Worrying over the results after the exam is a futile exercise as you cannot alter the result. We could auction these 2200 jobs till the cows come home, but it will be totally futile. Therefore, the whole political campaign against the extreme right is futile. I am sorry that I missed my chance this evening to register my protest, futile though it would have been. All attempts to coax him to play with educational toys proved painful and futile. If the pole has not got sufficient strength, there is a tendency to torsion or slight movement which renders the installation futile. He described the futile competition born of total war and the development of trench-warfare systems. The caterers spent the entire time flapping their arms in a furious, but futile attempt to discourage the flies. While likely futile, the effort to stop showrooming is an understandable if sometimes unsubtle reaction to fears of death by a billion clicks. I tipped my head back and straightened my shoulders, trying to maintain a shred of dignity, but my attempts were futile. It is futile because we cannot fully join the ranks and chase what is called the American Dream. I glanced carelessly at the door, in a futile attempt to change the subject. Let's not get distracted by futile debates or sidetracked by issues that have been going on for centuries! Show More Sentences She heaves a loud, exasperated sigh, and obviously decides it's futile to argue with me. You think I've got time to sit around doing something utterly futile and pointless? Although residents put up pockets of resistance, their attempts were largely futile. This skid mark of wheels turning right is the only evidence of her futile attempt to avoid disaster. This time last year, when Celtic were engaged in a heroic, though ultimately futile, Champions League campaign, O'Neill's reputation was on the march. The absurdity of North Korea now extends to its futile attempt to anticipate the whims of Mother Nature. America has spent tens of billions of dollars in a basically futile effort to coax Islamabad into clamping down on the Taliban. I jogged on the spot, making a futile attempt to slow my heart beat. Desperation turned him into a wild man, grasping at futile straws. Some will undoubtedly start blaming the people and repeat the worn out excuse that the talk of freedom and democracy is futile for such a people as ours. And that's why nearly all speculation, learned or otherwise, about the future directions of jazz is always futile. Perhaps even the indefatigable John Kerry might be discouraged from more futile and dispiriting peace talks. It was only then, on August 23, the agency sent out an all-points bulletin, launching law-enforcement agents on a frantic and futile search for the two men. The Civil War begins and Inman is enlisted to fight the Yankees, but after months of apparently futile heroism, he deserts, determined to make his way back to Ada. Yet, the beams prove futile in relieving the oppressing darkness. The proceedings before this Court would then be rendered futile. He must have realized that trying to analyse someone who was not ill and not asking for help was a futile exercise from the patient's point of view, though not from his own. Other shots revealed the futile efforts of firefighters as they built fireguards or dropped plane-loads of water and fire retardant on a natural force out of control. His illicit artwork showed that erecting barriers is not only inhumane, but also futile. Brown liver spots speckled his balding head, the remains of hair long since lost, in colour and quantity, brushed over in a futile attempt to regain his youth. Show More Sentences When he finally became president, Nixon walked away from that war to prolong a futile one half a world away. Any attempt to calculate or judge the stock market bottom is futile. During his first year in college, Ma made a futile effort to be sociable but ended up becoming more testy, frequently quarrelling with his classmates. Nothing could be more futile and self-defeating than such a strategy. There was a time when the man could crack a joke, though there was never anything he found funnier than man's futile quest for meaning in a hopeless, senseless world. But as far as gaining consciousness and sentience, it is futile. Australian film producers are hiring washed-up seppos to star in a local film in a desperate, ultimately futile attempt to whack a few bums on seats. He said many of his fellow shrimpers lost their lives when they stayed aboard their boats during the storm in a futile attempt to save their livelihoods. But Zachary Karabell writing for The Daily Beast says all of these reactions, whether sell orders or moralizing, are futile. While the suggestions Danielle's doctor offered proved futile, her vaginismus went away after she stopped breastfeeding. It is futile to demand motivation from the Vice, or reasons for his actions, for the point about evil is that it is absurd, unmotivated, and inconsistent. But pumping money into the unreformed policies of yesterday is futile. After a few minutes of futile searching, I had a brainstorm. Each will sit on a breadboard engraved with text matching European with African languages in what Boshoff sees as a futile but poignant attempt to claim a common humanity. I was neither one of those nitwits who wasted my time on a futile endeavor to provoke her, nor one of the curious who was drawn to this unusual character. Deciding this act to be futile, he took a longer glance, squinting beady eyes in the dark, and gestured his yellow thumb in the direction of the door. No-one would question the spirit of this South African team, but the legs had nothing left and after numerous futile assaults on the Wallaby defence White blew for no side. This staging certainly retains the futile but widely accepted cuts. We spend billions each year in futile attempts to prevent floodplains from flooding, barrier islands from migrating, chaparral from burning, and predators from predation. Ireland, Scotland, and Wales all provided bases for the defeated of 1066 to launch futile attacks on their supplanter which very rapidly fizzled out. Show More Sentences The great hubbub of the crowd made it futile to call for him. I would almost suggest this young chap take up writing instead of drawing, but one look at this penmanship and I know that would be just as futile a pursuit. These minerals are columbite, microlite, futile, thorite, and zircon. Attempts to discriminate between phylogenetic patterns of concrescence or differentiation among serially homologous elements are therefore entirely futile. The real thrill for me was to ride Indiana Railroad 65, one of the high-speed lightweight cars built in the early 1930s in a futile effort to save the interurbans. So looking at whether something makes people happy is largely futile. In statisticians' terms, you are looking for variance in something that is invariant. Neither action will make us any safer, but fear fuels a futile desire to turn back time and freeze the world the way it was, or the way we thought it was, before the news hit. Such is the nature of journalism and it is perhaps futile to bemoan it. Multiple postings may make it futile to proceed against any given site. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. The guests present on the occasion tried to resolve the dispute amicably but all the efforts to motivate the groom proved futile, the eyewitnesses said. Using drugs that simply kill off the worms in the human host, but do not prevent re-infection may seem futile when re-infection is almost inevitable in endemic areas. The remedies suggested by the unorthodox doctrinaires are futile. The imperial army, bogged down in long, futile wars against the more aggressive Marathas lost its fighting spirit. The allied van, after long remaining quiescent, made a futile demonstration and then sailed away. The attempt proved futile as Harrison was then married to his sixth and final wife, Mercia Tinker. Benjamin Disraeli often met with Rosebery in the 1870s to try to recruit him for his party, but this proved futile. The continuing futile debate on the issue served to further increase bitter feelings. The decline of Jacobitism left Charles making futile attempts to enlist assistance, and another abortive plot to raise support in England. But it is also a laughing rejection of futile attempts to perceive, categorise, or express it. Show More Sentences As a way out of this deadly and futile custom the system of 'wergilds' was instituted. James at first attempted to resist William, but saw that his efforts would prove futile. It is notoriously difficult and frequently futile to etymologize personal names. The delay rendered these measures largely futile, as the fire was already out of control. It is a combination of overstaffing and mismanagement that may be rendering the experiment ineffective or futile. Any prescriptive market-centric or universalistic policy approach will be futile. As a result, his rep rehab remains a lonely and futile mission. Attempts to extinguish those remaining have at times been futile, and several such combustion areas exist today. This catalytic behavior has been described as futile cycle or redox cycling. Covert gestures of kindness saved me from trouble, or explained the punctilio of some futile but unavoidable chore. Initially, the Danes attempted to defend their country using an ancient earthen wall known as the Danevirke, but this proved futile. The European rabbit can not only jump very high, but also burrow underground, making fencing essentially futile. Brooke warned Dill and the secretary of state for war, Anthony Eden, that the enterprise was futile, except as a political gesture. It was agreed that the plan was futile but the will of the civilian leadership must be respected and a joint agreement was signed. Brook warned Dill and the Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden that the enterprise was futile, except as a political gesture. Brooke warned Dill and Eden, that the enterprise was futile, except as a political gesture. I bequeath to you my literary work. Useless though these might be commercially, they are the attar-drops distilled from the long and futile ebullience of my life. By 1963, a climactic year for the civil rights movement overall, it was becoming clear that continued state resistance to educational desegregation was futile. A personal quarrel erupted between Buckingham and the Count of Olivares, the Spanish chief minister, and so Charles conducted the ultimately futile negotiations personally. She only replied with a laugh, and he evidently deemed futile the bid for sympathy on the score of religious or irreligious fellowship, for he recurred to it no more. Show More Sentences Goals from Steven Pienaar, Andros Townsend, Jermain Defoe and Harry Kane sealed the win, but Rubin Kazan's 1-1 draw against PAOK Salonika rendered Spurs' efforts futile. Ney at this time had few infantry reserves left, as most of the infantry had been committed either to the futile Hougoumont attack or to the defence of the French right. They were destroyed and subsequent efforts to save the city were futile. Although they never achieved their goals in either of these futile pursuits, they did contribute to the discovery of new metal alloys, porcelain products, and new dyes. At least three such justifications for protest in apparently futile situations can be given if we consider the effects of general nonprotest in such situations. The Nimrods shot an amazingly futile 2-for-45 from behind the arc. In another strip, Fred is marooned on an island with a crate of spoons, which he busily ties to sticks and throws at the fishies in a futile attempt to catch dinner. London LickPenny, which follows a poor petitioner's futile attempts to acquire justice without money, concentrates on the corruption of the courts. I could get hold of nothing but of some commonplace phrases, those futile phrases that give the measure of our impotence before each other's trials. Examples from Classical Literature 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. Show More Sentences But these futile ebullitions of malice are powerless to check the triumphal progress of the charabanc in the Eastern Counties. But to me his ambitions seemed futile, and the whole of Long Island less important than a flyspeck on the map of the world. So, she fought no more, but left destiny to work its will unhampered by her futile strivings. A kindly but futile Ambassador shook the snow of Petrograd from his galoshes and solemnly and laboriously vanished. But without knowledge of it that progress will be checkered and perhaps futile. Mr. Ayres efforts to refind his man proved utterly futile, and nothing was left to him but to notify his chief. This futile process actually reproduces itself yearly up to 1411, when at last the question of a recoinage was fairly faced. Such imposture, Godwin argued, is as futile as the parallel use by religion of the pains and penalties of the afterworld. You haven't been up to your usual form of futile and clannish conversation. Like a cat he chased it up and made a futile effort to get the hitter. Urged on by its mother, the dying calf made spasmodic efforts to swim that were futile and caused it to veer and wallow from side to side. But blue jay's attempts at imitating these creatures were futile. It would have been controversially futile if he had done so. His attempts at self-destruction were as futile as his snatches at fame! The eugenic campaign, then, without the other would be almost futile. It has been said that eugenics is futile because it cannot define its end. He should therefore smile at the futile attempt to excite his jealousy. All exculpatory arguments were futile against the fact itself. Any attempt to gloze the situation, he felt, would be futile. They saw the eyes of the Hun bulge in horror as he vainly struck with his futile hands against the massive chest and head of his assailant. Show More Sentences Not that I think the hunger-strike is altogether a futile invention. One favorable would be puny, futile, immodestly patronizing. He knew that denials would be futile with the terrible Stimson. Forty thousand were killed in the street-fighting of Tokio and in the futile assault on the Mikado's palace. He made a futile rush at White Fang, clipping the empty air with an outraged snap. The torment was far too racking for such futile fashion of lamentation. The tedium of futile undertakings will oppress us from the first moment. Is the preferential shop so delicate a fabric as to prove futile? In ten minutes the laundry was deserted, save for a few men wandering about with hand grenades in futile search for the cause of the disturbance. To deny that he had come to arrest the outlaw was so pitifully futile. His punches, weak and futile at first, became stiff and accurate. Its futile pretentiousness is the rasping irritation of every hour. His voice sounded thin and futile after the other's, and to Jurgis it seemed a profanation. She was visited by no more outbursts, moving her to such futile expedients. Instead of a feministic approach to a breakup, the song appeared to be a childish and futile attempt at being clever. The finality in his tone seemed to assure Lady Greystoke that further argument was futile, and so she abandoned the subject. One Saturday night he did not come home, and thereafter all their efforts to get trace of him were futile. Pumblechook's very limited dressing-glass, in the futile endeavour to see my legs, it seemed to fit me better. At that moment Godfrey felt all the bitterness of an error that was not simply futile, but had defeated its own end. All manner of devices were solemnly tried to hush the wires, and each one usually proved to be as futile as an incantation. Show More Sentences They spend their days doing futile physical labor and their nights rehearsing in their cell for a performance of Sophocles' Antigone in front of the other prisoners. The expropriation of the farmers that took place at this time would also have swelled our vote had it not been for the brief and futile rise of the Grange Party. Their manic activity for activity's sake equates, as something equally futile, with the immobile decorativeness of the living mannequins in the studio. In relevant remarks on Saturday, several commanders of the Iraqi popular forces underlined that the US attempts trouble their moves for freeing their homeland are futile. The hope of gaining positive information to act on, by laying artful snares for him which he might fall into in his talk, proved, from the outset, to be utterly futile. It is unfortunate that we distract ourselves from the main issue by engaging in futile superficialities despite crucial deadlines at hand, Gemayel added. Meanwhile, the lads off the estates of Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow, Bristol, South Wales, Newcastle and elsewhere continue to die in a futile attempt to extirpate the Taliban. The imminent obsolescence of their small-gauge formats adds melancholic force to their respective portraits of futile acts, foreshortened lives, and imperiled sites. So to subdue their most declarative statements, whether of immovable love or of grief-laden cathexis, is to perform a futile or showily self-defeating suppression. To have struggled with him in the street, or to have exacted any lower recompense from him than his heart's best blood, would have been futile and degrading. This is an idea not superficial or futile, but solid and weighty. And what rankled was that these thoughts were futile, that too much water had run under the bridge, that it was her lot in Martin's life merely to accept what was offered her. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of futile? Words that rhyme with futile What is the adverb for futile? What is the adjective for futile? What is the noun for futile? Translations for futile Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words futhorc futhermore futhark fut fusuma fusty futile attempt futilely futilitarians futilities futility futon 6-letter Words Starting With f fu fut futi futil