Sentence examples for vain search from inspiring English sources
The angry crowd tore it apart in a vain search for drugs.
Children rooted through the mess in a vain search for any books that survived.
I tip out all the polystyrene stuffing in a vain search for a book token.
At the time of his death, he had begun a vain search for his birth mother.
A decade after America invaded Iraq in a vain search for weapons of mass destruction, Mr Obama understandably wants proof.
Three years later, Tonty led an unsuccessful expedition down the Mississippi River in a vain search for his missing commander.
Mao tried unsuccessfully to maintain a balance among these different forces while continuing in vain to search for a suitable successor.
Thousands of police and Carabinieri with helicopters and dogs combed Sicily in vain in search of the reporter.
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.
It would be a search in vain.
Other people search in vain for a hobby to embrace.
