futility

Example Sentences

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Back and forth they went in their futility.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

As a goal, it almost seems reasonable, which makes it all the funnier that it takes on an air of Beckettian futility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Meanwhile. the Indiana Pacers matched a franchise record for futility with their 12th straight defeat, falling 135-127 to the Magic in Orlando.

From Barron's • Jan. 4, 2026

Their bowlers exercising plans grounded in futility as the ball disappeared to the boundary.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2025

But this one time we were studying Walt Whitman and his feelings of being helpless or the futility of life or something.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed