Sentence examples for made futile from inspiring English sources

Japan repeatedly made futile attempts to establish diplomatic relations with Korea.

They made futile jumps into midair as the bat flew by and acted like bird dogs, pointing to where the bat was hiding.

All the killing, all the struggle, all the pain – all is made futile because we know that if Achilles were on the scene it would turn out differently.

The British Dental Association has just revealed that 600,000 people have made futile appointments with GPs over dental problems in a year, at a cost to the NHS of £26m.

For its part, the Afghan government has made futile attempts to stop the flow of citizens towards Europe, where they make up 19% of Mediterranean arrivals, second only to Syrians, according to the UN.

The romantic disinterest in the Avengers series was parodied in this year's Age of Ultron with a brewing frisson between Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow and Mark Ruffalo's Hulk made futile by the pair's inability to consummate.

The first is of a young panda making futile but awww-inducing bids for freedom.

Do you think I feel completely A-OK with having to bounce, walk and make futile attempts to entertain the little demon for hours on end?

The men are camped for weeks below Monte Cassino, a fortified monastery, and make futile trips up the mountain in the rain.

By 1341 he was able to return to Scotland, but he did little as king except to make futile raids into England.

Children in the Riga ghetto played soccer, walked to school past bodies strung from gallows, and later, in Kaiserwald, heard their parents make futile plans to hide them under barracks floorboards.