Sentence examples for futile chase from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, he led a futile chase after the winner, Santiago Botero.

Let him bat and John Ashdown could be commentating on a very futile chase later on.

After all, he has made a futile chase of the championship ring for 15 years.

He mumbled something before dashing into the surrounding desert, his father giving futile chase in a vehicle.

In a futile chase after Piazza's blast, Kansas City center fielder Carlos Beltran ran into the wall and bruised his left knee.

Five minutes after falling heavily, the culmination of another futile chase, she called for the trainer to work on her back.

We would have the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Homeland Security Department start an "even tougher" and more futile paper chase.

With that, Rally Squirrel entered baseball lore along with other animal encounters, including the black cat that sauntered past the Cubs' dugout at Shea Stadium during a futile pennant chase in 1969 and the midges that swarmed Joba Chamberlain in Cleveland during a 2007 playoff game.

Now they saw not only the pain of a defeat that was hard to take, but also the scores from out of town, which informed them that they had dropped another game back in what may be a futile playoff chase.

Nailing down the parade's corporate structure is as futile as chasing after moonbeams, as an old Irish song goes.

Maybe those who held them were onto something in suspecting that when people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.