Sentence examples for became futile from inspiring English sources

But as helicopter traffic has more than doubled at East Hampton Airport during the past decade, trying to hear "the subtle sounds of a hummingbird" became futile, he said, especially on Friday and Sunday afternoons and evenings and Monday mornings.

At first I blocked them, but the effort became futile as they poured in every few seconds.

A dozen years later, when Speaker Gingrich (for whom I was press secretary) again proposed killing the Department of Education, the opposition (even among Republicans) was so powerful across the country that further effort became futile.

Over the next few long afternoons I spent in the pub with Mark, preparing for the interviews almost became futile, as he would wriggle around questions as endlessly as he did in his seat, with a seemingly mischievous pleasure in knowing he could completely detonate an interview at any chosen moment should he want to.

Argument turns to whine and becomes futile in the face of madness.

Mr. Goldstein told me to relax because trying to keep up with every application has become futile.

Inland housing markets that were booming a few years ago are now so awash with foreclosed homes that building has become futile.

There is no malaria vaccine, and using one drug after another to ward off malaria has become futile as the parasites evolve into resistant strains.

'When you see them trying to make it more and more extreme - the grabbing of the head, the multiple facial cum shots - it becomes futile.

The World Bank is saying that our aspirations to put an end to global poverty in the context of runaway climate change will become futile.

The second holdout lasted for forty-five days, but the Democrats' unanimity cracked when Senator John Whitmire, of Houston, decided that the effort had become futile, and returned to Texas for the Labor Day weekend.