Sentence examples for futile task from inspiring English sources

Bowling seemed a futile task indeed.

I mean, you can try, but it's a futile task anyway.

Navigating Russian politics when nobody knows who really runs the country is a futile task.

Or the defenders assigned the often futile task of denying him a goal.

Delineating the boundaries between the code and the visual artwork or disentangling individually copyrightable component parts may be a futile task.

So much has been shared, adopted, and synthesized that defining "French" or even "European" in opposition to "American" seems like a futile task.

Rosefeldt's subjects have included immigrants, backpackers, cowboys and pilots, but they all have one thing in common: they're stuck in a loop, repeating futile tasks, ensnared by stereotypes in places where nothing seems to change.

He ought to have done more to help Good, however futile the task.

But it also reveals how frustratingly futile the task can be in a land-hungry megacity, by constantly throwing up glimpses of parking lots, temples and garbage dumps popping up where mangroves used to be.

Of course, trying to encode the untold connections between the human brain's 100 billion neurons may be as futile a task as trying to revive a frozen corpse.

Investigators later searched the trash from both airports, but the volume was such as to make the task futile.