Sentence examples for vain for from inspiring English sources

There was an owl, too, and I searched it, in vain, for a label.

The speaker shouted in vain for order.

Crestfallen children waited in vain for autographs.

Students pleaded in vain for cable television.

I searched in vain for a telephone.

They looked in vain for their heroes.

They searched in vain for hours.

We waited in vain for United to spark into life.

Other people search in vain for a hobby to embrace.

In winter we longed, mostly in vain, for sleddable snow.

But one looks in vain for anything — anything!