Sentence examples for well vain from inspiring English sources

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No sooner had he uttered that phrase than he took it back, desperate to clarify that he was joking — that he would never really consider something so, well, vain.

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But, unfortunately, such hopes may well prove vain.

Hung on well, if in vain, against Monty.

He pitched well but in vain as the Red Sox dropped to 0-2 in the best-of-seven-game series.

If it has to pootle off back to the landing strip before kick off, its trip made in vain, well, that would just about put the tin lid on this particular farce.

Amadou Bagayoko, here without his singing partner Mariam, showed what a creative guitarist he is, lifting a version of the Clash's Train in Vain (well, there had to be one train song, surely?) Albarn may be the public face of Africa Express, but he was determined to remain mainly in the background, playing keyboards and rarely coming to stage front.

For Ridgway & Harman [13], "equitation that produces physical or emotional stress must be identified or corrected" as otherwise treatments efforts may well be in vain.

It turns out that the word for Botox is the same in just about every language, and there is a near-universal supply of rich, vain, well-groomed and ill-mannered women ready to preen, bicker and malign one another on camera.

Was she foolish and vain as well as heroic?

Nevertheless the tale gave "1969" its dramatic heart — Stockhausen and Lennon discuss a meeting, and Stockhausen waits in vain — as well as the start of a set list.

She is fine, for example, with appearing nude — "My job as an actor is not to be vain" — as well as with gaining weight.

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