| Our government has been fighting futilely for sixteen years but they will not talk serious peace. |
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| With each retelling, the story of the men who died gloriously but futilely just a few miles from help has seemed increasingly ridiculous. |
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| Most days at least one gets itself stuck in the house, usually trying valiantly but ultimately futilely to fly through one of our closed windows. |
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| And I did spend a lot of time futilely trying to talk to the FBI press office about the flight. |
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| I tried futilely to cling to the last fragments of a fading dream and go back to sleep when several more explosions followed. |
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| People without his political pull have spent years futilely trying to clear their names. |
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| She then grabbed an ax, and swung it futilely around her before the warriors were upon her, stabbing her in the heart. |
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| As I sat in bed and futilely attempted to sleep, I noticed a deep rumbling sound emanating from the hollow recesses of my cavernous stomach. |
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| For example, let's say that a young inventor is trying futilely to build a time machine in his garage. |
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| I looked up to find Trischen staring at me, his eyes tearing from the laughter he was futilely trying to keeping in. |
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| Rodney was fighting futilely against them as his red hair fell messily into his terror-stricken green eyes. |
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| He stared futilely at her figure, unable to reach her as the traffic signal turned green. |
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| More appeals, photofits and false leads, such as the one which led to waste ground being futilely dug for Amanda's body only last July. |
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| When the plane makes a second fly over and unleashes a hail of lead he refuses to move, manfulness futilely proven as weeping friends gather round his broken body. |
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| But conservatism now feels a lot like liberalism did in 1984 and 1985, back when I was futilely shoveling away that snow. |
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| As a perpetrator of this second kind of error, Ms Irigaray, futilely complaining about the speed of light, looks inevitably a bit of a straw woman. |
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| Trying to stop the flow of narcotics is akin to the legendary Sisyphus futilely pushing a boulder uphill, says Fernando Carrera, Guatemala's foreign minister. |
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| Down came a patch of plaster – complete with the futilely grabbing hand of a StB operative who had been trying to attach some listening device in the attic above. |
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| It is unfortunate that, yet again, we are hearing the same tired, unwarranted and groundless allegations that used to be unjustifiably and futilely repeated by the previous United States Administration. |
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| An experimental video shows fifteen people, wearing masks and covered from head to foot, moving about in an arid, barren, polluted landscape, as they futilely plant nearly 2000 tree seedlings destined to die. |
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| I have spent the many years since trying, futilely, to catch up. |
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| The Venetians futilely continued to fight them throughout the 10th and 11th centuries. |
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