Sentence examples for futile hands from inspiring English sources

The Australian captain was the only local batsman up for the fight in both disastrous innings in Hobart and his futile hands of 48 not out and 31 brought to mind the more stoic efforts of Allan Border in Australia's dark days of the post-Chappell era.

Maarten Stekelenburg could only wave a futile hand in goal as the Dutch began to wave goodbye to their chances.

All Lepailleur could do was put a futile hand on Wambach as she sprinted for the back post and leapt off of her right leg — a remnant from her days as a left-handed basketball player.

Chasing a daunting 213, the margin of victory was given a flattering gloss by Ravi Bopara's entertaining but futile lone hand of 65 not out from 27 balls towards the end.

It's not just art that is practically redundant; in Harmonic Tower - a scaled-up reconstruction of a Victorian device that creates drawings by means of pendulums - Shawcross renders the artist futile and the human hand obsolete.

The fractures suggest that she came down feet-first and then tumbled forward, holding out her hands in a futile hope of protecting herself.

In recent weeks, city authorities have thrown up their hands after a futile search for new dumping grounds for the thousands of tons of garbage produced daily in Bangalore.

And aren't our rule-merchants playing into Bin Laden's dead hands by their futile displays of stable-door-shutting? But because the honey was mine not a young mother's, my motive could surely not be other than selfish.

In desperation, some farmers are mobilizing children to bang empty tin cans, wave sticks and clap their hands in a futile attempt to scare off the insects.

On the other hand, it's futile: the environment is going to hell.

On the other hand, it is futile, and therefore unethical, to use samples too small to support the purpose of the study.