Example sentences for: vain

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

  • 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.”

  • ' 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."

  • The larger truths are all there, and some of the smaller ones, too--like the idea that Nixon's paranoia would extend even to his dog (another Checkers), or that Woodward and Bernstein might seem as vain and as clumsily ambitious as the felons they're pursuing.

  • He called the general a "vain and even malignant man," and added, "He hates England and has left a trail of Anglophobia behind everywhere."

  • Testers are as vain about finding bugs as I am about squashing them, hence the excessive pride of my tester who uncovered the year 4500 bug.


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