Sentence examples for been for naught from inspiring English sources

"Beijing's efforts, however, have been for naught.

The whole trip had been for naught.

Have all my efforts and expenses been for naught?

And then your life will have been for naught.

Now we find that enormous undertaking may have been for naught.

None of this is to say that my crusade has been for naught.

Then would be all the years of negotiating would have been for naught.

Now, it appears that those overtures might have been for naught.

So far, the pleading and the petitions have been for naught.

It's an ugly time, and all of Obama's bipartisan outreach has been for naught.

It was for naught.