Sentence examples for if futile from inspiring English sources

The dogged, even if futile, search through the world's detritus for meaning.

It was an understandable, if futile, attempt to minimize the ramifications of his decision.

That he actually returned to have a second, if futile, crack speaks volumes for his resolve.

Unfinished at his death, its composition formed part of a legendary, if futile, attempt to ward off mortality.

With a certain regularity, New Yorkers are given the opportunity to engage in a satisfyingly maddening if futile pastime: decrying the obscenities of rent regulation.

Doctors and hospitals are paid only for treating living patients, so there is always a possibility that financial incentives, conscious or unconscious, would prompt many expensive if futile life-extending measures — efforts that many patients would veto if they could.

A corollary was that trying to stop proliferation was quite difficult if not futile.

7.45pm BST Corner for the USA now, with a break forward from Alejandro Bedoya and some interesting, if ultimately futile turns and twists from Eddie Johnson.

The result is a frustrating mix of poor results, error messages and apparent incompetence on the part of the search provider.In May last year Google cheered its users with a clever if ultimately futile act of defiance.

Washington declared that the war was being won, but American casualties continued to mount, and much of what the public could see of the war on television appeared confusing if not futile.

If they thought it might be a cakewalk, though, as it had been in the first Test, they were sorely disabused of the notion by the worthy, if ultimately futile resistance of the opposition second time around.