Sentence examples for somewhat futile from inspiring English sources

But a search for public servants near City Hall on Monday — amid a shutdown of virtually all of New York's mass transit network — proved somewhat futile.

Yet one concern is that the stations will all be centrally located, a somewhat futile measure given the majority of Muscovites live outside the MKAD, a ring road that separates the city centre from the suburbs.

Collectively, we had a simple mission: to walk around the surrounding area in what would eventually become a circle, periodically putting up posters for a fellow-survivor who was trying to find his family – somewhat futile, we thought, but what can you do?

Chris Nash and Rory Hamilton-Brown took advantage to score somewhat futile hundreds.

In a somewhat futile attempt to avoid confusion, the company has temporarily taken to calling the joint venture, "New Fuji Xerox".

Pitchfork writer Martin Clark has suggested that "well-meaning attempts to loosely define the ground we're covering here are somewhat futile and almost certainly flawed.

"It's pretty much futile anyway.

But while Mr. Caliguire's career may be suitable for a movie treatment about a politician, his candidacy has been a somewhat more pedestrian -- and futile -- affair.

Without a road to have them looked at from they would have a somewhat aimless if not a futile aspect.

Religion — and those irrational, futile wishes — were somewhat the theme of your first novel, "The Origin of the Brunists," and of its sequel, too, I presume?

Indeed, Knight's fall to the floor after his entirely futile attempt to stop Jordan does indeed somewhat resemble a particularly hammy extra dropping dead in an action movie.