It's just a futile endeavor, a waste of taxpayers' money.

From my end it was a futile endeavor.

"It really is a futile endeavor," he said.

Until that point, they had been continuing in their futile endeavors to get near each other.

The shot was aimed a foot behind Harry Vincent, whose mind had never turned from that futile endeavor to reach the control switch.

He was already late, and not much inclined to engage in futile endeavor this early in the morning.

It took her a moment or two of futile endeavor to realize that she was locked in.

Life is too unique an attribute to be wasted in futile endeavors.

In despair I tried to force the thing, but the cold, unyielding stone might well have laughed at my futile, puny endeavors.

After several days of futile endeavor to raise Pellucidar, we had be-gun to despair.