Use "was in vain|be in vain" in a sentence

1. All our work was in vain.

2. ♫ but it was all in vain.

3. He was vain and ostentatious.

4. He was vain and bombastic.

5. Opportunity had not Beckoned him in vain

6. All his father's exhortations were in vain.

7. He was nothing if not vain.

8. All our efforts were in vain.

9. Doctors battled in vain to save his life.

10. Police searched in vain for the missing gunman.

11. But if Christ has not been raised up, our preaching is certainly in vain, and our faith is in vain.

12. Parents campaigned in vain for her reinstatement.

13. In vain you have multiplied your remedies,

14. They waited in vain for a response.

15. But if Christ has not been raised up, our preaching is certainly in vain, and our faith is in vain. . . .

16. Calls to the florist were always in vain - it was a cash purchase.

17. Sadness ends in gladness, showers are not in vain

18. He tried to hold back the tears, but it was in vain.

19. They tried in vain to persuade her to go.

20. They endeavoured to make her happy but in vain.

21. They attempted in vain to modernise these antiquated industries.

22. These lackeys of bourgeois criticism can yap in vain.

23. I tried in vain to start a conversation.

24. An old dog barks not in vain. 

25. Men can be just as vain as women.

26. Nevertheless, Anton Koberger did not labor in vain.

27. They sought in vain for somewhere to shelter.

28. We searched in vain for the missing child.

29. She tried in vain to attain to fame.

30. He tried in vain to attain to fame.

31. Have you been taking my name in vain ?

32. I tried in vain to dispel her misgivings.

33. Hullo ! Who's that, taking my name in vain?

34. The Avenging NARWHAL does not kill in vain

35. 1 Her counterpart left in vain and vapidity.

36. “Vain thought Conceivest thou

37. Or life is vain.

38. All the police's efforts to find him were in vain.

39. We tried in vain to make him change his mind.

40. The autocrat strove in vain to deal with the situation.

41. We tried in vain to fix up their difference.

42. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.

43. Pollsters have searched in vain for pockets of disloyalty.

44. The language of Contumely was exhausted in vain efforts to describe his baseness

45. She's just a vain, foolish woman.

46. Isabelle was a frivolous little fool, vain and flighty.

47. She waited in vain for her son to return.

48. They tried to rally pound sterling but in vain.

49. Have you been taking my name in vain again?

50. They tried in vain to open the locked door.

51. 26 An old dog barks not in vain. 

52. Is fingernail what to vitamin lack in vain very?

53. We are weak, vain creatures.

54. 24 An old dog barks not in vain. 

55. They endeavored to make her happy, but in vain.

56. He was a great trapeze artist, but he was completely vain.

57. For 30 years, he tried to persuade manufacturers - in vain.

58. I used up my strength for an unreality, in vain.

59. 26 In vain I tried to keep back my tears.

60. She and a neighbour tried in vain to revive him.

61. They tried to rally the pound sterling but in vain.

62. And you shouldn't be vain about needing spectacles, you know.

63. Vain glory blossoms but never bears. 

64. I realized that my efforts had not been in vain.

65. So, our lengthy negotiations with the daughter were in vain.

66. Did the Holy Ghost in vain forewarn of these things?

67. He looked in vain for the source of his unease.

68. Kind fate steered all my arrows true, alas in vain.

69. I walked up and down the street looking in vain.

70. 16 They tried in vain to buy off the opposition.

71. He tried to cover up his mistakes but in vain.

72. He tried in vain to bring his temper under control.

73. How long humans have hoped and waited, seemingly in vain, for peace to be established!

74. To attend love's joys in vain. So may I ere my long love be possessed.

75. Zhang might be an amazing engineer, but he's vain about going gray.

76. The sacrifices of our brave security personnel shall not go in vain.

77. We have tried in vain to trace the domain and email address.

78. What did I tell you about taking the Lord's name in vain?

79. I'm not sure why, but one needs parents to be vain.

80. I'll not have the Lord's name taken in vain in my prison.