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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:

In that culture, the word "[expletive]" was not only obscene, it was profane, in the original sense: It took an important idea in vain.
Each evening, Betty waits up for her son, aware of his vain attempts to create a secret life for himself with Hong Kong's prostitutes.
He can be vain, pompous, and ridiculous.
The children were probably damaged beyond repair because they were not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain, or to swear, i.e., use words like devil and hell .
He, only like himself, was second unto none.Whose death, though life, we rue and wrong, and all in vain do moan;Their loss, not him, wail they that fill the world with cries;Death slew not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.