Sentence examples for one futile from inspiring English sources

He didn't let up, not even after Escudé pulled a muscle after a tumble on one futile passing shot in the second set.

A few hours after the sit-in began, the cameras did flash on when the GOP gaveled back in and made one futile attempt to restore order.

"...A few hours after the sit-in began, the cameras did flash on when the GOP gaveled back in and made one futile attempt to restore order.

In one futile moment, the Lady Vols threw the ball out of bounds, one player passing to a teammate looking the other way as the ball bounced slowly into the bench.

Josef Silverstein, an expert on Myanmar who is an emeritus professor at Rutgers University, has grown skeptical over the years as he has watched the world try one futile policy after another to influence the junta.

This is, after all, the man whose government spent one futile summer and millions of futile dollars attempting to get us to care about the War of 1812.

After one last, futile stand at Torrington, Devon, he surrendered to General Thomas Fairfax on March 14 , 1646

The fight ended in one last futile gasp, a cold, empty stadium as witness.

In October, after one last futile attempt by Railtrack to go behind the backs of the other users of the line and renegotiate the Virgin deal, the government pulled the plug.

After one particularly futile offensive series early in the second half, wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson, who at that point had 4 catches for just 13 yards, began screaming in the direction of several assistant coaches.

For the next six years, before it was closed down once again by the Nazis and moved to Berlin for one final futile year, this small crafts college (of only 200 students at any one time) produced some of the most influential objects of all time.