Sentence examples for futile miles from inspiring English sources
The eventual winner, Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia, kept saying, "Come on, we can do this," but Radcliffe could not respond to the exhortations of her old friend and rival in the final, futile miles.
In addition, the bears' homing instinct renders any relocation of less than 100 miles futile.
It's a futile gesture, perhaps, given that the state has 6,450 miles of rivers, but to this inner-tube jockey, at least, it seems more valuable than any dynamic model calibrations we may calibrate.
It was the only occasion he'd opened the door to me in all the months I'd been making futile visits to the house, after driving hundreds of miles.
Were Dr. King still alive would he have told Mississippi sharecropping parents that letting their kids walk three miles barefoot to a one-room schoolhouse was futile because the parents' poverty and illiteracy would impede their children's learning?
But trying to enforce such a rule on a 26.2-mile course filled with thousands of runners may be futile.
The castaways could see the Polaris 8-10 mile away, but attempts to attract the ship's attention with a large black cloth were futile.
Their protests were futile.
