FUTILE in a Sentence
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51 example sentences for FUTILE, such as:
1. All this talk seemed to me so futile.
2. He saw clearly too his own futile isolation.
3. My efforts to go back to sleep proved futile.
4. Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.
5. He brought his arm up in a futile attempt to ward off the blow.
2. He saw clearly too his own futile isolation.
3. My efforts to go back to sleep proved futile.
4. Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.
5. He brought his arm up in a futile attempt to ward off the blow.
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Meanings and Examples of FUTILE
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futile
a. producing no result or effect
a. unproductive of success
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1 For the dozenth time, she ran out onto the porch but this time she did not go back to her futile packing.
2 Scarlett's search was futile until in the orchard she found a few apples.
3 Here was the end of the kindly, courteous house which had always welcomed her, the house where in futile dreams she had aspired to be mistress.
4 At Christmas time Frank Kennedy and a small troop from the commissary department jogged up to Tara on a futile hunt for grain and animals for the army.
5 No, I suddenly found myself on the curtain, an actor, posturing and making futile gestures.
6 Officially, Georgia's government had never capitulated but it had been a futile fight, an ever-losing fight.
7 She felt that she would stifle if she stayed in Atlanta another day, with her tired mind forcing itself round and round the deeply worn circle of futile thoughts about the mess she was in.
8 Her rosy blondness had survived some forty years of futile activity without showing much trace of ill-usage except in a diminished play of feature.
9 She was visited by no more outbursts, moving her to such futile expedients.
10 One Saturday night he did not come home, and thereafter all their efforts to get trace of him were futile.
11 His voice sounded thin and futile after the other's, and to Jurgis it seemed a profanation.
12 They clamored at each other, numbers making futile bids for the popular attention.
13 The letters cut in the stained wood of the desk stared upon him, mocking his bodily weakness and futile enthusiasms and making him loathe himself for his own mad and filthy orgies.
14 He saw clearly too his own futile isolation.
15 All this talk seemed to me so futile.
Example Sentence:
1 Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.
2 Attempts to get supplies to the region are futile because troops will not allow the aid convoy to enter the city.
3 He brought his arm up in a futile attempt to ward off the blow.
4 My efforts to go back to sleep proved futile.
5 Like many in Russia, she blamed the country'sfailings on futile attempts to catch up with the West.
6 Do you simply ignore in futile hope that will cause them to go away?
7 However, attempting to retaliate is either futile or dangerous ethically.
8 He was accused of being a demagogue because he made promises that aroused futile hopes in his listeners.
9 And even if the good guys could be sorted from the bad guys, the barrage of intermittent gunfire made any escape seem futile.
10 At this moment of success I found only an unreasoning sense of futility.
11 Work is the way that people seek to redeem their lives from futility.