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How To Use in vain In A Sentence

• But try telling that to the little old lady who has waited in vain a couple of years for a vital eye operation.
• Finishing the mission so our troops will not have died in vain is the most screwed up thing I have ever heard. Think Progress » 9%.
• Marshals struggled in vain to prevent spectators rushing onto the racetrack.
• I tried in vain to start a conversation.
• Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. Charles Dickens 
• Except the Lord keep the city, the _Wakeman_ waketh in vain. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
• She ran to alert neighbours who battled in vain to douse the blaze until firefighters arrived. The Sun
• If the world again sinks into the ruins of some ideological framework this history will have been written in vain and later people will revise it for themselves. Nobel Lecture - Literature 2000
• Where even the vinously literate search in vain for clues, getting down on their knees to turn over handfuls of soil or gazing down from the crest of the slope in utter bewilderment.
• As she leafs through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the looped, fastidious handwriting.