In a Communist country, organizations are expected to engage in futile activities.

It's a compulsive yet irritatingly futile activity, a lesson about the soul-eroding addiction to distraction that is the plight of the contemporary consumer (Johnson).

On the screen, the hulking mound of indolent probs continued its futile activity.

For these three novelists terrorism was a futile activity, its violence doomed to redound on the terrorists themselves.

Action is important, even if it entails futile activity.

The Sergeant will carry on with his prescribed but futile activities while we slumber.

The dying neurons fired in one last orgiastic blaze of futile activity.

Why not bury the head in the pillow, plug the ears, and cease this futile activity of idea-making?

After a week of futile activity Emerson had taken the unprecedented step of shutting down the dig.