Sentence examples for to futile from inspiring English sources

We resort to futile devices against it.

Futile attitudes lead to futile wardrobes.

The failed artillery bombardment doomed Picket's Charge to futile glory.

Like cancer patients, they were subjected to futile treatments that diminished their quality of life.

Those hoping for romantic upheaval will be disappointed, while any policy victories will be gradually refined from pragmatic to futile once they enter into the political process.

Somehow, it is harder to place the moment when the excitement of a new year turned to wariness and then to alarm and then to futile questions about the nature of time.

So any attempt to mesh these two radical identities seemed to be futile to me.

As a result, doctors of all sorts, especially oncologists, are reimbursed well for administering close-to-futile second- and third-line treatments and reimbursed hardly at all — financially punished, in fact — if they take the time to explain the case for doing less".

It latches on, will not concede to my futile attempts to ignore it, resist it, remove it.

That approach to 18 turned out to be futile.

Otherwise, any effort to lower Medicare spending is bound to be futile.