Examples of 'futile' in a sentence
Meaning of "futile"
futile (adjective): Describing something incapable of producing any useful result; pointless or ineffective
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- Incapable of producing results; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
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It would be futile even if all of you attack me.
These efforts have indeed proved to be futile.
Wars are futile and serve no useful purpose.
Resistance in this case is far from futile.
Yet it would be futile to avoid this discussion.
Futile and nonbeneficial can be understood as follows.
It does not nurture futile hatreds or hopes of revenge.
So futile and what a terribly misguided notion.
Such efforts are futile and should be rejected.
Then looking for him would be futile.
Your futile effort to have a question answered.
It feels rather futile now and then.
How futile is exile for the swan.
His protestations were futile and he got dressed.
Those futile and foolish plans of yours.
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Both processes are futile in the long run.
It is futile to search for the perfect translation.
Whom he regarded as futile relics of a dead age.
The futile effort to flee from ennui.
All our efforts might have been futile.
Feeling futile and yet feeling content.
The march to land had proved futile.
End this futile uprising and surrender.
Empathetic consideration would also prove futile.
We realize what futile aimless lives we lead.
Continued war and military escalation is futile.
Like our futile struggle for perfection.
Trying to see with your eyes is futile.
I see it is futile to try and stop you.
Any attempts to salvage it will be utterly futile.
We are stopping a futile procedure to save the patient.
Oh how could my hope for something be so futile.
Or attempting escape futile and dangerous to civilians.
Attempts to manipulate the data output are futile.
It is an entirely futile speculation on the part of personalities.
Nor does he truly believe our cause is futile.
It would be futile and also cruel to try.
No matter how bewilderingly futile they may be.
It is futile and inappropriate to expect people to change.
But what you did was futile and wrong.
Frenzies of futile rage ravaging only oneself.
These panicked responses are not just futile.
It would be futile and harmful to ban production.
Your stupid melodramas and futile quarrels.
It is futile to talk with you all.
Trying to repair a node would be a futile exercise.
You must see how futile this stubbornness is.
Because otherwise this seems so utterly futile.
His efforts are not futile in the end.
This particular reaction seems as vehement as it is futile.
