come to naught
go for naught

But they came to naught, for I am young and without experience.

Community efforts to build a new one have come to naught.

Now, some of that effort seems to have come to naught.

If you do not, all our plans will come to naught.

But, for the present, all these reports came to naught.

But her efforts come to naught when he still wants to leave.

This all may come to naught, yet it has been worth- while for me.

Plans for the remaining members to continue on without him came to naught.

Teddy Roosevelt’s plan came to naught nearly a century ago.

His work toward a congressional vote for the District has come to naught.

Their leaders' promises to find them new places to live have come to naught.

So far, it appears that their efforts have come to naught.

At a small company, the most careful planning can come to naught.

To date, their efforts have come to naught because none of the men will go along.

What a pity their plans have now come to naught.

So much endeavor had come to naught, here in this room.

Yet the Government's efforts to become a trade and tourism center have come to naught.

But the king's enterprises came to naught when he died in March 986.

That came to naught, as did a proposed bridge 50 years later.

Even the effort to wet her lips came to naught.

But the military success was intended to buy time to stand up Afghanistan’s civil society – a hope that has come to naught.

Otherwise, the economic recovery of the last three years will come to naught.

Unfortunately all his plans came to naught on the night of 25 November 1120.

Yet should that seed fall upon a rock, it will come to naught.

In the 1960s and 1970s, development of “synthetic cigarettes” made from materials other than tobacco came to naught.