futile

Going to the local police for help, however, is often futile.

But so far as I can see, thinking about such things is not futile.

He had almost given it up as futile, more than once.

He had to believe that, or else everything was futile.

But by now he knew just how futile that would be.

Then it would be futile to take up more of your time.

It would be futile to bring in the police first.

Hope that she might ever return to her own people seemed futile.

It would be futile for any of you to leave here.

Human nature being what it is, nothing seems to me more futile than to level to the ground and start again.

The decision today made clear that this line of defense is futile.

He had known there would be some futile talk of this kind.

It would be futile, of course, especially over the long run.

His efforts were futile and finally he gave it up.

We see now that it would be futile to do so.

Until last four decades most of the land was futile.

They were here when he made his futile runs for President in 1980 and 1988.

What I said was that even if they tried, it would be futile.

It was an important exercise, but also a futile one.

"I should think you would find that a futile effort."

I tried to read the paper a totally futile act, of course.

This was my thinking position when things appeared to be futile.

Still, he had to try, futile as it might be.

Never have myself, mostly because I think it would be futile.

This is a futile question, because nobody can see beyond the present.