Sentence examples for vain since from inspiring English sources

I have been vain since birth.

Their efforts, however, were in vain, since a spokesman for Rooney insists it must have been a lookalike.

Their supporters aimed to stir up tribal animosity against the court in vain, since ordinary Kenyans still seem to back it.

Some Air Force officials acknowledged that the steps taken might be in vain since many military personnel could gain access to the documents from home computers, despite admonishments from superiors not to read the cables without proper clearances.

"Throughout my four years at university, my friend and I used to go dropping off application letters to firms in Nairobi, but it was all in vain since we never received any responses," Zach Ngugi recalls.

There has been disagreement for years over whether "transition" requires Assad to leave power, as Western countries have been demanding in vain since 2011.

That seemed a vain hope, since nobody had the habit and with opium growers and warlords roaming the precincts, voting would be risky.

My head was full of the deceptions of vain ministers since 2006, the avoidable 430 deaths and 2,000 soldiers who return home broken in mind and body.

Pope has pined for the comely but vain Teresa since youth, but she demurs from his pursuit: he hasn't achieved success yet, and a childhood illness has left him slightly hunchbacked.

Whereto I thus replied: "Each fisherman can wish That all the seas at every tide Were his alone to fish; "And so did I, in vain; But since it may not be, Let such fish there as find the gain, And leave the loss for me.

Perhaps this is a vain question, since every firm now – one hopes – is interested in the web.