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• The Nimrods shot an amazingly futile 2-for-45 from behind the arc.From the entry behind the arc
• During sentencing, she added: "You told (the victims) that resistance was futile.2025 June 19, “Student who raped 10 women jailed for 24 years”, in BBC. From the entry callously
• His futile attempt to litigate away electoral defeat may appall you, but it probably doesn't surprise you.2020 November 30, Timothy Noah, “The Trump You've Yet to Meet”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic…. From the entry common decency
• Without decent recon and greater intel on this enemy, I'm starting to think our efforts are futile.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: APEX Status. From the entry foothold
• Trey led into the story of two misguided young men's futile attempts at being jack boys.2010, Cam Rascoe, Writings of Rascoe. From the entry jack boy
• They are, as it were, pachydermal rivets, holding fast the compromised fabric of this futile, unbolted, realm.2005, David Kettle, Elephant Gnosis, page 80. From the entry pachydermal
• The question is by no means as futile as it may sound.1993, Albert S. Gérard, The Phaedra Syndrome: Of Shame and Guilt in Drama, page 20. From the entry Phaedra
• Juguet re- emphasizes "that the quarrel between "terminalists" and "lateralists" is a futile one"1992, B. M. Johri, Kunda B. Ambegaokar, Prem S. Srivastava, Comparative embryology of angiosperms - Volume 1, page 81. From the entry lateralist
• Then the conversation turned to a vexatious old topic: Denis's continuing futile attempts to farspeak other telepaths.1987, Julian May, Intervention, page 169. From the entry farspeak
• It is described by men as being very shy and brave in a futile but adoring way.1987, Albert Gosewijn van Beek, The Way of All Flesh: Hunting and Ideology of the Bedamuni ..., page 84. From the entry tree wallaby
• Most Zelda-like, and so is her subsequently futile, shabby career, a series of TV parts.1971 February 15, John Seelye, “The Persistence of the Suffering Woman”, in New York, volume 4, number 7, page 40. From the entry Zelda-like
• Powers are seeking as before to drown the problem of disarmament in endless and futile wordmongering.1961, United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Documents on Disarmament, page 352. From the entry wordmongering
• Whilst the fever is rampant, the body is rendered relatively futile, and its normal activities are affected.1953, Alice Bailey, Esoteric Healing, Lucis Press Limited, pages 313-314. From the entry overexcessive
• Their feeble pamphlets, their smearily printed newspaper, seemed futile against the enormous blare of Corpo propaganda.1935, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 29, in It Can’t Happen Here, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran. From the entry smearily
• Legislation was to Mencius a phase of external discipline futile in the making of morality.1934, John Clark Archer, Faiths Men Live By (Nelson’s Religious Series), New York, N.Y.: Thomas Nelson and Sons, page 96. From the entry clear-cut
• She was often up late, playing her futile Free-to-Plays.2017, Gregory Scott Katsoulis, “Influent™: $19.99”, in All Rights Reserved, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin TEEN, →ISBN, page 150. From the entry free-to-play
• Cold Feet was a futile, weak-handed little coward.2014, Max Brand, Three Who Paid, →ISBN. From the entry weak-handed
• To erase the Soviet dimension of the Russian identity would be a reactionary and futile attempt to demodernize Russia.2013, Boris Groys, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry demodernize
• Like priests at the altar, they're mere vessels of a much larger force that it would be futile to resist.2012, Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You. From the entry technodeterminism
• But it was futile to continue cracking down.2009, Kevin J. Anderson, The Ashes of Worlds. From the entry crack down
• And that's what my column is -- a futile last burst of fire at the rising tide of busybodies and mediocrity.2006 CE: J.D. Tuccille, Full Automatic Tuccille : Full Automatic (Google archive). From the entry last burst of fire
• That was futile because the well-intentioned Zhu has little power in Qipan and most other places in the countryside.2001, Gordon G. Chang, “Trade Charade: WTO Accession Will Trigger Collapse”, in The Coming Collapse of China (Business/Current Affairs)…. From the entry Qipan
• Trying to block advances in the digital age is futile.1998 July 6, “Privacy in the Digital Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry digital age
• Covert gestures of kindness saved me from trouble, or explained the punctilio of some futile but unavoidable chore.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 254. From the entry punctilio
• We need a futile gesture at this stage.1961, Peter Cook, Beyond the Fringe (AfterMyth of War). From the entry shufti
• Useless though these might be commercially, they are the attar-drops distilled from the long and futile ebullience of my life.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 125. From the entry attar
• My restless, itchy Syrian companion was rolling a cigarette beside me, making some observation futile and sneerful as usual.1930, Harold Courtenay Armstrong, Turkey and Syria reborn: a record of two years of travel, page 78. From the entry sneerful
• How about late hours, heated rooms, traffic-dodging down the Portsmouth Road, general hecticity, and the soul-sickness of a futile life?1930, Philip Gibbs, The Hidden City, page 22. From the entry hecticity
• Hyslop’s wielding of the old-time charge of materialism seems futile.1908 March 20, Joseph Jastrow, “Notes and News”, in Frederick J[ames] E[ugene] Woodbridge, Wendell T. Bush, editors, The Journal of…. From the entry propagandum
• His skill renders Becker's portrayal of Prince Grimaldi, a lover and future husband, futile in the wake of Chair (Chuck and Blair).2011, Brionna Jimerson, "'Gossip Girl' conceives unrealistic plotlines, child", The Tufts Daily (Tufts University), 6 October 2011, page 11. From the entry chair
• At least three such justifications for protest in apparently futile situations can be given if we consider the effects of general nonprotest in such situations.1999, Jean Harvey, Civilized oppression, page 67. From the entry nonprotest
• Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped.1996, S. J. Rozan, Concourse, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 265. From the entry uniform
• We've a right to laugh off the scene the bankrupt pretentiosity of the futile self-misnamed Power types, the wielders of absurd violence.1969, Open Persuader, One Incorporated, page 228. From the entry pretentiosity
• False fronts, frequently called "shirt fronts," are futile attempts to make a small, cheap house pass for something larger and more valuable.1967, The Appraisal of Real Estate, page 132. From the entry shirtfront
• Cold and rugged it was, lashed by furious gales that tore with futile fury at the plasteel dome which Elmer Dunk called home.1942 March, Gord Peck, “He Was Poor...But He Was Honest”, in Censored, volume 1, number 3, St. Andrew's College, Aurora, page 7. From the entry plasteel
• I could get hold of nothing but of some commonplace phrases, those futile phrases that give the measure of our impotence before each other's trials.1911, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in Under Western Eyes. From the entry commonplace

Meaning of futile

1. adjective Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
2. adjective Insignificant; frivolous.

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Questions about futile in a sentence

How do you use futile in a sentence?

Futile is used as an adjective. For example: “The Nimrods shot an amazingly futile 2-for-45 from behind the arc.”

What is a short sentence with futile?

“But it was futile to continue cracking down.”

What does futile mean?

Futile means incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.