Sentence examples for the futile from inspiring English sources
adjective
Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.
The estimated cost of the futile care was $2.6 million.
Our politicians still fight the futile battles of the past.
Jeffrey Skilling on the futile search for corporate transparency?
One song — built around the refrain "The futile, the futile, it outweighs the beautiful" — waltzed like a sea chantey.
He supported the futile Anglo-French agreement with Adolf Hitler in Munich (September 30, 1938).
The futile and unnecessary and false responsibilities have fallen from one's shoulders and one's conscience".
What I dreaded were the futile formulas of consolation from people who never knew him.
"It's not fair," said Kobe Bryant, who scored 31 points in the futile comeback effort.
These attempts at humor and knowingness vacillate between the futile and the tasteless.
Just one of the futile hoops the system regularly makes clients jump through.
And can we bring an end to the futile battle of extinction between environmentalist and whaler?
