futilely in a sentence

1. Obama intends to spend 2013 negotiating—futilely—with Iran.

2. More than 50 times, the judge sought—often futilely—to cut her off.

3. For decades, we have futilely dealt with the question of who is a Jew.

4. This is a metaphor for people futilely attempting to fulfill their illusory physical desires.

5. He was protesting, futilely it seems, the demise of fundamental spiritual and political rights.

6. When a deputy futilely tried to interpret the tape, the jurors only laughed and shook their heads.

7. Polish children look in vain for candles on the Christmas tree….and so on, endlessly and futilely.

8. Because when we see what we are now seeing, vainglorious Monte Albán, we futilely seek continuity.

9. For example, let's say that a young inventor is trying futilely to build a time machine in his garage.

10. They honk incessantly (and futilely) in gridlock, as if they expect all the other vehicles to just evaporate.

11. Many times, as pseudo-adults, we futilely attempt to force others into fulfilling these infantile needs for us.

12. You fight futilely against it, you fear its arrival, but when it inevitably forces an end, it’s very liberating.

13. Instead of wasting his time looking futilely around like Chou Yue, he had closed his eyes to feel his way forward.

14. How much bloodshed and chaos have been caused by people futilely trying to turn a subjective opinion into an objective reality?

15. In fact, the real options are either to agree upon compensation or keep futilely negotiating a Palestinian state for another 50 years.

16. Cells of an embryo build falsely and futilely, in the sense that what they construct will be only temporary and will be out of adjustment later.

17. Indeed, the best relationships are formed when partners complement each other—not when one person is trying futilely to fill the voids in another."

18. Joseph Roth was a deeply political journalist who recognized the danger of National Socialism very early and wrote against it – ultimately futilely.

19. It was inevitable that the Elven Empire would be more willing to surround and exterminate them with their elite armies instead of futilely chasing after a flying ship.

20. Instead of continuing to plant trees futilely, for decades Tony Rinaudo has been persuading African farmers to regenerate trees from the existing underground root system.