Sample Sentences for
futile
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    Later came the white heron, gliding low in futile search of a shallow edge to wade.  (source)
    futile = effort that is pointless because it is unsuccessful
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    All my efforts for mere survival seemed futile.  (source)
    futile = pointless because there was no chance of success
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    ...you should know all the dreams I had 'bout buying that house and fixing it up ... And didn't none of it happen. (Dropping her hands in a futile gesture)  (source)
    futile = indicating that effort is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
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    ...Janie knew the futile fight was not with her.  (source)
    futile = pointless (useless because it will be unproductive or unsuccessful)
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    I began to sense the futility one feels when unacknowledged by a chance acquaintance.  (source)
    futility = worthlessness
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    "I can't get my seatbelt unhooked," Tad said, scratching futilely at the buckle release.  (source)
    futilely = in a manner that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
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    But men will chatter and you and I will still shout our futilities to each other across the stage until the last silly curtain falls plump!†  (source)
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    Should Rowan continue this futile resistance, all it holds dear will perish in agony.  (source)
    futile = effort that is pointless because it will be unproductive or unsuccessful
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    Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable?  (source)
    futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
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    ...he'd struggled futilely to try to pull the ghosts off Heath.  (source)
    futilely = in a manner that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
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    It is true, she was looking very charming herself, and Stephen was paying her the utmost attention on this public occasion; jealously buying up the articles he had seen under her fingers in the process of making, and gayly helping her to cajole the male customers into the purchase of the most effeminate futilities.†  (source)
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    Few people look at stars when p-suited even when Sun doesn't make it futile;  (source)
    futile = pointless effort
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    Halfway there, the ocean reached his neck and the futility of the situation finally hit him.  (source)
    futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
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