Sentence examples for futile hour from inspiring English sources

She had just spent a futile hour rummaging through the musty basement below the sports bar, where no forgotten Lycett account books and molds had turned up.

Yes, I have spent futile hours adding up money Michael might have sent.

People love recounting the one time they caught a big fish, not the many futile hours they spent waiting for a bite.

Patients who died within 48 hours were excluded because in a large proportion of these patients, care was futile and 48-hour transfusion requirements could not be objectively assessed for patients who were alive for only a few hours.

At about eight-thirty, after a half hour's futile effort to rouse his boss, he is in a frenzy.

"It's all solid," said Joseph McCormick, a firefighter from North Massapequa, after hours of futile excavation.

By doing so we're not merely sparing ourselves hours of futile fretting.

After several hours of futile exchange, one of the lawyers said to him, "Merrill Lynch has a lot of powerful friends".

If we can't manage a couple of hours of futile F5ing during a rain spell, Test cricket will not see the end of this decade".

Addressing a crowd of 50,000 young German boys and girls who help in their respective churches as altar servers, he warned them that "many young people waste too many hours on futile things".

In those last sad hours of futile pillow adjustments and tiny sips of liquid, of silent prayers and unspoken goodbyes, I took my mother's hand and stroked her face.