Sentence examples for vain for him from inspiring English sources

There his friends waited anxiously and in vain for him to return.

But you wait in vain for him to have a proper conversation.

But they have waited in vain for him to stand firm on what matters to him and to the country rather than forever attempting to turn non-argumentative reasonableness into its own virtuous reward.

Since the military's ouster of Mr. Morsi on July 3, Mr. Hagel has had more than 15 phone calls with General Sisi, pleading in vain for him to change course.

He provided a deceptively neutral backdrop for a noirish plot based on the true story of a woman who locks her rich, elderly husband in their laundry room, waiting in vain for him to die.

These scraps of paper have been the only physical link to Ms. Brito's husband, Jose Cohen, who left Cuba on a raft in 1994 and has been waiting in vain for them to join him in Miami.

She released the statement through her husband's lawyer a day after a grand jury report said one boy screamed in vain for her to help him while Sandusky attacked him in a basement bedroom.

The next day, other naval vessels and the Seenotdienst (air-sea rescue) service, escorted by fighters of JG 2, continued in vain to search for him.

And although his home is 40 minutes' drive from Edinburgh, you will look in vain for any sign of him in Edinburgh Festival programs.

After the March 2015 raid in Mobile that freed him, along with 35 other young people, he waited in vain for his mother to pick him up from Alabama youth services.

He never came close to repeating its success and searched in vain for a role that fitted him so well.