Sentence examples for vain efforts from inspiring English sources

He tells of his own vain efforts to trace them.

The consequence is that we are wasting our time & labour in vain efforts to do business.

Later it became a scapegoat mocked for its vain efforts to behave in a human fashion.

Now add Sontag's "use my will and intellect" to the list of eventually vain efforts.

In the more dramatic instances of collective panic, people trample one another in vain efforts to reach safety.

Partly autobiographical, it concerns the vain efforts of an enlightened official in Indonesia to expose the Dutch exploitation of the natives.

It was a rudimentary and ultimately vain effort to save their town.

In a vain effort to divert attention from their lapse, they rely on cute props.

As it unfolds we realize she had the lute stolen in a vain effort to conceal her past from Elis.

"I've lost my lower register," he said, clearing his throat in a vain effort to regain his Tobacco Road pitch.

To this end, he made a vain effort to reinstate the simple martial virtues of the early Tokugawa period.