Sentence examples for futile hours from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

"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.

"After hours of futile searching, President Roosevelt and his group finally tracked down and surrounded a helpless bear cub, and one of the guides asked the president to shoot the bear so he could win a hunting trophy," she said.

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