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Example sentences for: futile

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Even with help and tutoring from Mohdar Abdullah and other bilingual friends, Hazmi and Mihdhar's efforts to learn proved futile.
It is always futile to try to draw practical lessons from history.
G. Cranky Orrin Hatch is annoyed that everyone doesn't just agree with him, and he thinks the best remedy is to mount a futile run for the presidency.
That is not to say that charity is futile.
What better way to keep potential trouble-makers under his thumb than to coop them up at Versailles, and let them squabble for rights and privileges as futile as attending His Majesty’s awakening?