English example sentences with "vain"

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All my haste was in vain.
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We knocked at the door for five minutes, but in vain.
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All our efforts were in vain.
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All the doctor's efforts were in vain and the man soon died.
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Dick tried to solve the problem, in vain.
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I tried in vain to open it.
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The old lady will often wait for her son in vain at the station.
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The boy tried to move the heavy sofa in vain.
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The boy made vain efforts to reach the shore.
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All my pains were in vain.
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I think John is quite selfish, and a little bit vain. He isn't easy to get on with.
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John tried in vain to solve the problem.
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The drowning man called for help, but in vain.
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That woman is proud rather than vain.
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We protested, but it was in vain.
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Great pains but all in vain.
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All our attempts were in vain.
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We looked for our lost puppy, but in vain.
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We pushed the rock hard in vain.
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We tried in vain to talk him out of smoking.
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I made every effort to realize the plan but after all it turned out to be in vain.
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I tried in vain to explain the reason.
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I tried to get it, but in vain.
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I tried to persuade him, but in vain.
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I tried to persuade her in vain.
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She is vain about her slender figure.
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I tried to make myself understood, but in vain.
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As long as you won't face the truth, you will cry in vain.
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The authorities are striving in vain to stabilize the currency.
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The autocrat strove in vain to deal with the situation.
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The autocrat strove in vain to deal with the awkward situation.
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I tried in vain to persuade him not to smoke any more.
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I tried in vain to catch him out.
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We tried in vain to make him change his mind.
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His efforts were in vain.
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He has apple-polished in vain.
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He tried in vain to lift up the stone.
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He tried to open the box in vain.
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He tried in vain to solve the problem.
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He tried to give up smoking but in vain.
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He tried hard in vain.
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He tried to give up smoking last year, but it was in vain.
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He tried in vain to open the locked door.
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He tried it again, but in vain.
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He did his best, but in vain.
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He endeavored to make his wife happy, but in vain.
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He tried in vain to pull the wool over my eyes.
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He tried to study all night, but in vain.
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He tried to borrow a large sum of money from them in vain.
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He tried to convince them of his innocence in vain.
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He tried in vain to convince them of his innocence.
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He tried in vain to put an end to their heated discussion.
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He tried to persuade her in vain.
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It is vain to argue with them about the problem.
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All their efforts were in vain.
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They attempted in vain to bribe the witness.
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I tried to talk him out of the project, but in vain.
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I tried to keep in with her in vain.
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She tried hard in vain to make both ends meet on a small salary.
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She tried in vain not to cry.
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She tried to smile in vain.
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She tried in vain to please him.
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She is vain of her beauty.
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I tried in vain to seduce her.
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His vain efforts to seduce her showed he was barking up the wrong tree; she was a mother of two tots.
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I do not want to exert myself in vain.
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It goes without saying, but the search ended in vain.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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But, knowing precisely sadness and love and death, and that they are vain images when we observe them from the calm space where we should shut ourselves in, he kept on weeping, and desiring love, and fearing death.
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They urged him in vain to sell them his prosperous firm.
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Her actions were in vain.
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We looked for the puppy, but it was in vain.
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In my opinion, lack of a mission makes one's life vain.
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Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
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She got the ticket in vain.
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Give up, give up your vain pursuit!
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A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.
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She was young handsome vain and giddy and completely the slave of fashion.
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He tried, in vain, to borrow a large sum of money from them.
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Dick tried in vain to solve that problem.
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Tom didn't die in vain.
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How can you say that our soldiers died in vain?
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He kept on gambling, trying in vain to recoup his losses.
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Your sacrifice was not in vain.
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He tried to make his wife happy, but in vain.
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She tried in vain to conceal her fear.
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It was all in vain!
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It's very sad to find out that all of our plans were in vain.
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You ask in vain for forgiveness; your actions are unforgivable.
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If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
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Your death will not have been in vain.
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So many people spend their valuable time in vain.
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I tried in vain to deal with the problem.
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Good actions are never in vain.
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All my efforts were in vain.
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Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.
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Your death was not in vain.
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You didn't die in vain.
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I tried to distract him, but it was in vain.
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Once upon a time, there lived an extremely vain emperor who cared a lot about his clothes but not his people.
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