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lost cause
noun as in wild-goose chase
Example Sentences
When we honor leaders who fought to preserve a system that enslaved human beings, we are honoring a lost cause that has burdened Virginia for too many years.
Victor Robles doesn’t have to be a lost cause, nor does the Nats’ frail infrastructure.
I think talking to those communities is sometimes seen as a lost cause and a waste of energy, and Sam didn’t see that.
The sooner we recognize that, and stop treating loved ones who have adopted conspiratorial beliefs as lost causes, the better we may be at curbing the beliefs that threaten our democracy and public health.
There’s a lot of technical jargon involved, and being mindful of the source can be a lost cause, because there’s virtually no sustainable leather production in the US, Corry says.
A gorgeous, glistening rendition of “Lost Cause” came next, and the airy Morning Phase standout “Blue Moon” ended the sequence.
Or as Sen. Lee posited, “Many of you may have been told that this is a lost cause.”
Some see all significance in the grim front of the destroyer, and some in the bitter sufferers of the Lost Cause.
They dress nearly identical to the students I teach in New York, watch the same media, and see politics at home as a lost cause.
Because we gave it our stamp of approval, it will be considered ours—even though we knew it was a lost cause.
It would be easier for me to give up the fight for Ireland, to desert the beaten side, to forget the lost cause.'
It takes great courage to fight a lost cause when there is no hope even of victory.
Their resting place is marked by an imposing marble shaft, in honor of the comrades of "the lost cause," "wherever they lie."
A second time they came here, and then they were in full retreat, heralds of a finally lost cause.
It was not a meeting of the adherents of a lost cause, but of one which had suffered only temporary defeat.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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