Sentence examples for mostly vain from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, worried Chinese combed pharmacies on Thursday in a mostly vain search for potassium iodide tablets, which are believed to decrease the risk of developing thyroid cancer from nuclear radiation.

So the only way for universities to invest in their football teams is by paying ever-higher salaries to name-brand coaches, in the (mostly vain) hope that they will attract a bigger share of the top players in high school or squeeze an extra win or two out of the existing roster.

Mostly in vain, it seems.

In winter we longed, mostly in vain, for sleddable snow.

He lost his apartment, spent all his money, and searched, mostly in vain, for paying work.

Her lawyer has offered objections, mostly in vain, accusing Mr. Hardin of harassment.

Everyone on the plane worked their cell phones trying to contact people in New York, mostly in vain.

Others were practical, from members who had searched, mostly in vain, for their own quiet places over the years.

Scholars have searched mostly in vain for paperwork from his workshop and newspaper accounts of his prolific output of chiming clocks in walnut and mahogany cases.

It is a stunning endorsement of Sanders, who has been beating the same drum, mostly in vain, for close to half a century.

Survivors build monuments to remember the dead, and tear down the statues of the tyrants who killed them, but mostly in vain.