Sentence examples for like vain from inspiring English sources

God obviously doesn't like vain little girls.

It seemed like vain bravado, especially as he sank to the floor again 30 seconds later.

The movement is little but energetic preening; the women end up looking like what were once called brazen hussies and the men like vain gigolos.

Her mouth was wide open, her tongue hung out, her arms and fingers were stiff, and her whole body shuddered as though she were dying, while Jernimo, flung far from life by that unexpected explosion, surrendered to a delightful intoxication, feeling the entire world and his own past vanish like vain shadows.

In recent years, major venues like Vain, 10 Critics, and Oslo have been shut down, while iconic spots like Motor Lounge and The Music Institute where Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson nurtured the second wave of Detroit techno are long gone.

The story can be fixed so that there is one, the jokes can be fixed, all the dials can be turned up and down, but we like the vain actor husband and this girl trying to have a normal life in the suburbs.

"Sabich?" Yes, Redford said; when he was that age he had been just like him — vain, savvy.

The assertion sounds like a vain, sad boast coming from a man who lives in a cramped trailer outside Jacksonville.

There have been various controversies, like a vain effort to push his young son for a prominent post in local government.

Some of his scores, like "In Vain" and the String Quartet No. 3 ("In iij. Noct.," 2001), are performed in pitch darkness.

Not wishing to look like a vain egomaniac - not that anyone might think of a politician in those terms - I said that I had, just the once.