Words similar to vain

Example sentences for: vain

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

One looks in vain, however, for any thread of consistent belief.
.. is that a great many people will consult it in vain for information about their own names.”
The fight was in vain, as it turned out.
' In sermons, novels, political broadsheets, moralising treatises and popular engravings, the French were portrayed as mangy, corrupt, effeminate, ignorant, indolent, immoral and lecherous, as well as vain and superficial."
NYT : "He is, after all, one of the men about whom an old girlfriend, Carly Simon, wrote You're So Vain."