Sentence examples for making futile from inspiring English sources

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

This week they were working in the Staffordshire potteries, pounding clay and treadles, packing greenware into kilns, stoking fires and making futile attempts to acquire in a couple of hours various skills it takes a lifetime to learn.

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.

Are you currently making futile efforts to pin said dessert to your "Fancy Dessert" board on Pinterest but failing?

It was the only occasion he'd opened the door to me in all the months I'd been making futile visits to the house, after driving hundreds of miles.

Nemtsov resigned as SPS leader and pursued a business career, while making futile attempts to reunite Russian liberals, left in total disarray by the election catastrophe.

A few years ago, Taryn's husband was attending social events on his own while she stayed at home, wading through the painful voices and making futile attempts to reconcile with the body she occupied.

Opinion: Instead of complaining, "He should have consulted a lesbian!" and making futile accusations that "he directed it wrong," a more productive conversation would be to consider whether there really is any "right" way to have sex.