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Example sentences for: futility

How can you use “futility” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Students of human misery can savor its underlying sadness and futility.
The "futility" thesis--government can't help--and the "perversity" thesis--government makes problems worse instead of better--are at odds.
Implementation will require increasing emergency department physicians' knowledge in order to increase confidence in screening skills and to dispel myths about the futility of treatment.
And man's brotherhood with base animals would seem to point to the futility of Diana-style attempts at emotional communion.
They trotted out numerous theories to establish the Kosovo mission's futility: Air power alone had never won a war, the Serbs had proven their invincibility against Hitler, and negotiation backed by gradual military escalation had failed in Vietnam.