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Example sentences for: vain

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He called the general a "vain and even malignant man," and added, "He hates England and has left a trail of Anglophobia behind everywhere."
The threesome of Harry, Ron Weasely, and Hermione Granger (who is likely to be everybody's favorite character) are believably mischievous, competitive, vain, and, for all their intelligence, prone to childish foolishness (e.g. the clever, studious Hermione's stubborn crush on the egotistical charlatan Professor Lockhart in Chamber of Secrets ).
The reader will look in vain for comparisons to results from prior years, but as the stories explain, the tests given this year are the first of their kind and so cannot be meaningfully compared to previous writing scores.
Primakov added that he had tried in vain to understand the logic of NATO's actions, but they had served only to consolidate the Milosevic regime and eliminate all political opposition in Serbia.
Were the Y2K Preparations in Vain?