Sentence examples for were vain from inspiring English sources

These were vain hopes.

"What he had were vain, imperious, disputatious, dissolute popinjays and nonentities, many of whom spent the day drunk".

There was a family tradition of photography, fostered by Granny's aunts, the Wells sisters, who were vain and fashion-conscious.

The ancient heroes, too, were vain about both themselves and honour, boasting as much about outwitting the enemy as about outfighting him.

If such a thought were vain, to me it yet remains the breath of life itself, greater than grief and lonelier than a cloudless sky.

Spies were vain fools, traitors, "pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives," he wrote.

We're vain.

"You're just being vain.

"And they're vain.

I'm vain".

He's vain now.