Sentence examples for for a futile from inspiring English sources

Commentators tend to blame the Poor People's Campaign for a futile demonstration rather than to blame Congress for being unresponsive to the needs of the poor.

There are rumors that Gore is being discouraged from making a large expenditure of money for a futile cause, & being warned that he won't help his future by attacking the presumptive nominee.

When she finally reached a live human, she was put on hold more than once, transferred to another operator for a futile attempt at paging the doctor, then sent back to the original operator before eventually being hung up on.

Stringing out a two-year relationship for a futile, final six months because breaking up would mean moving back in with my parents was one of the more cowardly things I've ever done.

Even the increasingly mouthy Flowers's weakness for a futile feud (chiefly with identikit indie synthers the Bravery and commercial emo band Fall Out Boy) failed to halt his group's astonishingly swift ascent, thanks to tunes of the calibre of 'Somebody Told Me' and indie-disco classic 'Mr Brightside'.

I feel for my star when it does disappear, sometimes using my last ounce of strength to limp into each map's hidden, speed-boosting core for a futile joyride into oblivion, a golden middle finger to the cruel whims of the Commode.

There was not even a battle, for, after a futile ride to Bordeaux, Henry withdrew.

Seth Moulton recently made headlines for mounting a futile effort to derail Nancy Pelosi's bid to be Speaker of the House of Representatives.

At the moment, half of it is cordoned off for reseeding, a futile effort.

Keeping the greens fit for play became a futile task for the grounds crew, akin to raking leaves in a gale.

Presidents and kings and prime ministers and diplomats and special envoys have labored for a century in a futile search for peace.