用in vain造句子，“in vain”造句
he looked for her in vain; the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution.
After resorting in vain to screwdrivers and pliers, I decided to call a locksmith shop.
Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalize; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise.
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
Since the dawn of biblical archaeology, scholars have sought in vain to verify that there really was an Abraham, a Moses, an Exodus, a conquest of Jericho.
To make himself the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear, the remorse, the agony, the ineffectual repentance, the backward rush of sinful thoughts, expelled in vain!
From the age of two, a friend of mine went with his mother every month to the ABu Salim prison, hoping in vain to see his father, who was imprisoned there.
They tried to rally the pound sterling but in vain.
The former US President Bill Clinton's rivals wanted to impeach him but in vain.
The eyes try in vain to perceive anything but drops of light and colors trembling on the lashes.
But unless he manages to pacify the people of the Delta and so secure its pipelines and refineries, the reforms will be in vain.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
My efforts were not in vain.
Then my living shall not be in vain.
Some of the biggest names in technology, including Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL, have tried in vain to popularize music subscriptions, yet new efforts keep emerging.
Some say that so many had perished during its construction, that no one dared halt the work and thereby admit that it had all been in vain.
All his father's exhortations were in vain.
On two successive nights they tried in vain to seize a knoll that lay between their position and monastery hill .
The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
If the kids find their grandparents' language uncool, all of the well-intentioned outside help by linguists is usually in vain, except for preserving the language as a museum-piece.
For this reason, Christianity is anti-wisdom: wisdom tells us that our efforts are in vain, that everything ends in chaos, while Christianity madly insists on the impossible.
They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out.
Another African summit, another disappointment. Any hope that the change of leadership in South Africa might bring change across the border in Zimbabwe has proved in vain.
