Sentence examples for it is in vain from inspiring English sources
"It is in vain to talk of Aristocracy and Democracy," a stonecutters unionist declared in 1835.
As Thoreau put it, "It is in vain to dream of a wilderness distant from ourselves".
Weisser, of course, believes that gun culture is a social fact so deeply grounded in American reality that it is in vain to protest, and that it must instead be understood.
They were his first love, and though he may not kneel to them now as in the hour of passion, still they can recall the past; and nothing is more useless or unwise than these scenes of crimination and reproach, for we know that in all these cases, when the beloved object has ceased to charm, it is in vain to appeal to the feelings.
Hartley responds directly: "It is in vain," he writes, "to bid an inquirer form no hypothesis" (OM 1, prop. 87).
"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity," Charlotte Brontë once wrote.
"In spite of all of these measures," Cooper notes, "it was in vain that the Constituent Assembly and its Colonial Committee had hoped to save the colonies from danger of insurrections," (SFHR, 77).
