Sentence examples for futile- from inspiring English sources

5) Antonio Cassano's swerving 30-yard strike against Fiorentina was as glorious as it was futile.

An insufficient number of police were deployed to Mare Street and Clarence Road, offering futile attempts to contain the anger of a vast number of youths, the source of which remains unknown.

But their search for stability was still futile.

In the 70s it was said the politics of envy was futile, as sharing out the pelf of the rich yielded too little to be worth the fight.

When Toronto last beat the Red Bulls in 2009, Defoe was only a few months into his second spell at Tottenham alongside fellow returnee Robbie Keane, the Canadian team's star player was Dwayne De Rosario, and New York were in the middle of the type of futile season later editions of the Toronto team would repeatedly specialize in.

Scientists are notoriously bad at disclosing the truth, but, in its futile quest for a hidden agenda that is not there, the press is missing much of the point.

This was thrilling news indeed as the clear inference is that there are other prehistoric creatures on the grand prix circuit who use their weirdly foreshortened front legs for swatting away pterodactyls and making futile attempts to grab up lithe and bronzed young cave-chicks clad in sloth fur bikinis.

That logic is at its most naked and futile in the treatment of disabled people.

While Rome is Federer's "losingest" tournament, with 15 ducks from 15 innings (and three futile finals), in dismissing the skittish Czech for the 14th time he confirmed he is in excellent fettle.

He led a futile 2011 fight to scale back the Patriot Act and famously spoke for 13 straight hours on the Senate floor in March to protest the Obama administration's drone strikes on American citizens.

My futile attempts were punctuated by the screams of the patient in the next bed and by the mischief of the lady opposite, who kept coming over to steal my equipment.