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Example sentences for: vain

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

Paula Jones' lawyers swarmed the networks, struggling in vain to make their case despite a judicial gag order.
He had been restrained in vain.
In the hot, humid summer months it can feel as if the entire population of Tokyo and Yokohama is here, searching in vain for a vacant patch of sand.
In Wolfe's tour from the suite to the streets, you search in vain for false notes.
On the other hand, as David Wade reports, “More people, it appears, ring or write in [to BBC Radio] about all the effing and blinding or the taking of the name of God in vain than about any other single subject.”